backlash.com - July 2001

Some provocative quotes

 

(Women) swear, they screw and they say how useless men are.

- Imelda Staunton, commenting on her new film, Crush, co-starring Andie MacDowell and Anna Chancellor, Sunday Times, May 13, 2001

During the last three years, Nike has continued to treat the sweatshop issue as a public relations inconvenience rather than as a serious human rights matter.

- Leila Salazar, corporate accountability director, Global Exchange, quoted in NewsFlash, May 16, 2001

Nervous anxiety, the inability to find meaning in life's simple pleasures, and the common tendency to become "people-pleasing" workaholics often characterize the lives of adult victims of bullies.

- Annonymous, The Bullied Pulpit, Chicago Sun-Times, May 27, 2001

There's no such thing as quality time, there's just time.

- Dennis Miller, Dennis Miller Live

Perhaps the biggest problem married couples face is the issue of communication. She wants to talk; he wants to grunt. There is one easy solution; men must make an effort to share their thoughts and feelings. Once she gets an earful of the white noise and infantile babble that fills men's heads she'll be on her knees begging for you to shut up.

- Cosmo Landesman, With these rules, I thee wed, Sunday Times, May 27, 2001

Domestic violence is a momentary act of power designed to compensate for an experience of powerlessness.

- Warren Farrell, National Post, June 11, 2001

What we are seeing today is nothing less than the criminalization of fatherhood itself: criminal penalties imposed on parents who have committed no act but are made outlaws through the actions of others in ways they are powerless to avoid. Once the father is stripped of custody, his contact with his own children outside government-approved times and locations becomes a criminal act. His criminalization is further consolidated through forced legal fees and impossible child-support burdens.

- Stephen Baskerville, "Plundering Fatherhood," World Net Daily, June 16, 2001

I think marriage is something you go into and plan to stay that way. What worries me today is too many people enter into it with the thought that if they don't like it, they can get out of it in a hurry.

- Thora Schuchman, on the secret of staying married to the same man for a life time, Olympian, June 18, 2001

The environmental movement has thus far failed to significantly reduce our over-reliance on petroleum, partly because too many post-'60s environmentalists openly espouse a socialist hostility to capitalism -- an economic system that is in fact the foundation of modern democracy and the engine of social mobility, empowering women and racial and ethnic minorities alike.

- Camille Paglia, The energy mess and fascist gays, Salon.com, May 23, 2001

 

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