#ridicule

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#appalled #been #believe #feminism #global

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#around #back #community #even #knee

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#astrology #been #care #criticized #i

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

#bias #fairness #ridicule #satire #truth

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#any #becomes #catholic #dogma #faith

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America? ↗

— Glenn Beck

#did #man #ridicule #self-made #shame

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ↗

— William Blake

#eyes #green #imagination #itself #joy

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#among #called #especially #fact #gossip

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then. ↗

— Arthur Bremer

#dozens #dress #fifteen #fifteen minutes #high