50 Quotes by Grayson Perry


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    We may try to numb anger, but when we do we numb joy and pleasure on the world too. This numbing does not mean we stop having the feelings, it just stops us from being aware that we are having them. Those feelings are still churning away, tensing our bodies, writing unconscious scripts for us, storing up stuff to unload on to the world, on to our kids, but preferably on to our therapists. This numbness also inhibits the ability to have good relationships as well.

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    Though there were no strong conventions, until the nineteenth century pink was certainly a very suitable color for boys.

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    We should not deny males the opportunity to nurture and care, just as we should not deny females the opportunity to kill and maim in the name of Western democracy, if they fancy it.

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    A revolution is happening. I am loath to use the R word, because bearded young men – and it does tend to be men who resort to such means – usually characterize revolution as sudden and violent. But that is just another unhelpful cliché. I feel revolutions that really effect lasting change happen thoughtfully in peacetime.

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    Feminists and civil rights campaigners made white men visible in ways they'd never been before. They started to give the default dominant group equal 'otherness', and white men didn't like it. This feeling of visibility prompted men to adopt a victim status befitting an oppressed group. The patriarchy felt itself wobble and fall a notch nearer equality, but screamed as if it had fallen way below the groups it still oppressed.

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