Quotes About Questioning

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

I'm always working in this universe - whether picturing hamburger joints, Virgin Marys, domestic scenes - using these "vacant-faced" women as a medium to question universal truths.

"What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream." "I need you," said Lisa. "I hear that from women a lot."

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority, and ultimately of our own creativity.

What was the purpose of a woman monster?It came out in a whisper. 'What am I for?

All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

The only kind of influence I want to be on anyone is by being, constantly and consistently, someone who probes herself at every juncture, improves the way in which she functions as a citizen, and questions the status quo.

The one feeling that settled in and stayed there for a long while, and I still deal with, is guilt. I was there. I was a part of it. Why does it have to be like this? Was I responsible? Was I the reason Dale was in that position? I'd ask myself that question and look around at people and wonder if they were thinking that, too.

Staying curious keeps me inspired.