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When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Arises Backlash Because Being Bossy Dominant Exercise Get Often Power Problem Status Trying Without Women Young Young Women

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There's a toxicity within gaming culture, and also in tech culture, that drives this misogynist hatred, this reactionary backlash against women who have anything to say, especially those who have critiques or who are feminists.

~Anita Sarkeesian

Topics: Against Also Anything Backlash Culture Drives Feminists Gaming Hatred Reactionary Say Tech Those Who Within Women

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I've held my silence when I probably shouldn't have. But I was in the minority, a woman writing SF, and I was afraid of career backlash. I was afraid of being excluded or losing opportunities if I didn't play nice.

~Ann Aguirre

Topics: Afraid Backlash Being Career Excluded Held Losing Minority Nice Opportunities Play Silence Woman Writing Sf

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Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

~Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Topics: Backlash Could Countries Create Developed Developed Countries Developing Developing Countries Disasters Economic Global Interdependence Means Today

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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

~Bob Barr

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In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.

~Candace Kita

Topics: Able Backlash Date Goal Humble Opinion Preserving Purity Racial Should Threat Whenever Wherever Whomever Without Worthwhile You

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When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

~Carson Daly

Topics: Backlash Cheap Course Greatest Had History Hit Idol Just Like Make Music Novelty Product Reality Reality Television Really Seemed Stories Story Television Then Towards Watch Way

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To forget that the EPA was borne out of public demand is to invite a real backlash.

~Christine Todd Whitman

Topics: Backlash Borne Demand Forget Invite Out Public Real

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Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.'

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Abortion Against Always Around Baby Backlash Core Emotions Exhausting Feminism Give Horror Issues Like Our Right Social Social Issues Stories Thought Us Way Which Wives Woman

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I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

~Ed Helms

Topics: About Backlash Because Down Down The Road Feel Going Good Karma Later Life Like Much Now Right Road Some Somewhere Sort Up Using Worried Years I Feel I Feel Like

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