Lisa Bloom > Quotes

“Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.”
― Lisa Bloom, Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World

“Requiring women to cover their faces in public, at least with paint, is now an Ameriacan cultural norm.”
― Lisa Bloom, Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World

“[A] person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if:             (1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself.”
― Lisa Bloom, Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It

“Happiness doesn't just happen. I'm convinced that for the most part, those who focus their minds on it, obtain it.”
― Lisa Bloom, Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World

“Despite the strides America has made in the civil rights movement, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African-American president, racial inequality endures, as the shooting vividly illustrated. Any false belief that we lived in a post-racial America was shattered, as mothers of black boys spoke out about the excruciating warnings they privately gave their sons: don’t run, especially from police; don’t carry anything in your hands; don’t talk back to authority figures.”
― Lisa Bloom, Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It

“Reading as an adult, for pleasure, is infinitely better than reading the stuff assigned to you back in school. You get to choose what you want to read.”
― Lisa Bloom, Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World