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The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Florynce Kennedy

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Florynce Kennedy
Age: 84 †
Born: 1916
Born: February 11
Died: 2000
Died: December 22
Autobiographer
Lawyer
Kansas City
Missouri
Florynce Rae Kennedy
Flo Kennedy
Ass
Biggest
Sin
Sitting

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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.
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Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.
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Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.
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Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.
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Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country I call it Pentagonorrhea.
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Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.
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I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.
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Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
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... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.
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A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like you've never seen a bathtub. What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you win clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are dirty again.
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Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?
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When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive
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