Priti

“Never in the history of the world has telling someone to calm down actually helped them calm down,” Erin says.”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

“So much of comedy is about us all realizing, Hey, maybe I’m not such a weirdo after all/Oh my God! You do that thing, too?/Holy crap, you just said everything I ever wanted to say, but didn’t have the tools to do so. The joy of seeing yourself in another is pertinent not just to stand-up comedy but to being alive.”
― Phoebe Robinson, You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

“What I’m saying is that the comedy world oozes machismo. The most glaring evidence of this is the fact that 90 percent of shows have a mostly male lineup, with one or two spots designated for women. And since this is the norm, audiences have been conditioned to instinctually enjoy listening to anything about the male experience and to be somewhat resistant or hesitant to listen to stuff from a female perspective. In a lot of ways, it’s almost as though anything outside the heteronormative male experience is deemed not worthy of discussion.”
― Phoebe Robinson, You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

“Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they’ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.”
― Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time