Safe Space Quotes

• Having a safe space to imagine and dream and (re)invent yourself is the first step to being happy and successful, whatever road you choose to pursue.

  Ashley Bryan

  Dream, Successful, Space

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• Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

  Julia Alvarez

  School, Character, Issues

  Source: ncac.org

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• Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Space, Feminism, Warning

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• A good friend is someone we can count on, as well as being so much more. A friend is someone with whom we can relax and just hang out, have fun and share our innermost thoughts - deep dark secrets, lofty and noble goals, or our hopes, joys, and fears. A good friend allows you a safe space to share your deepest thoughts and needs - without worry of being judged, criticized or made to feel silly for feeling the way you do. Friends cheer each other on, laugh and cry together, and just plain commiserate and listen to each other. That's why friends are friends.

  Jennifer Youngs

  Friendship, Cheer, Fun

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• "Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share that knowledge by speaking about their lived experience while in a safe space. But to provide this kind of safety, members of privileged groups, i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gendered middle class men, must keep quiet.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Reality, Men, Class

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Young women at our elite colleges are among the safest, most privileged and most empowered of any group on the planet. Yet, from the moment they get to campus - and now, even earlier - an endless stream of propaganda tells them otherwise. They are offered safe spaces and healing circles to help them cope with the ravages of a phantom patriarchy.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Healing, College, Circles

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• The theater should always be a safe space.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Space, Safe, Should

  Source: www.npr.org

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• But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.

  Neil Gaiman

  Communication, School, Ideas

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.13, HarperCollins

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• Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Character, Kids, Space

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• The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Space, Feminist, Feminism

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Through the craziness, yoga classes allow me a safe space to breathe and put energy into myself.

  Sadie Calvano

  Yoga, Class, Space

  "Finding Play Through Work, with Sadie Calvano, star of CBS's Mom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Where I'm like,"no, I won't have that piece of bread, I'll have the veg." There's a different approach mentally that you have when you're in a safe space. Our body awareness in the West is ridiculous.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Space, Different, Pieces

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Opportunity, Play

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• Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me.

  Margaret Cho

  Space, People, Goal

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the child alone, but it does mean creating safe spaces where the child can be with other people. It does mean directing their attention to God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Beautiful, Children, Mean

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• I think there's a group of students - whether it's the micro-aggression or the safe space or the trigger warning that garner a lot of attention - but that the fundamental issues that they're more interested in are - and I'll be very frank here - how much money do I pay for a unit? And what is that unit going to do for me when I'm graduating?And even though this is mostly in a progressive landscape, they're asking questions that have not been asked of the university. And the university can't supply answers to them.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, Asking Questions, Issues

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Washington Post is quickly trying to become the safe space for Donald Trump deniers, for the Trump-won-the-election deniers. I think the Washington Post is establishing itself as the safe space for anti-Trump delicate snowflakes to go.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Space, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy's [Corbyn] ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed to intervene is final proof for me that he is unfit to lead, and that a Labour Party under his stewardship cannot be a safe space for British Jews.

  Ruth Smeeth

  Party, Space, Finals

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• College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.

  Baratunde Thurston

  New York, College, Cities

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• I think that if you believe in regime change, you're mistaken. In 2013, we put 600 tons of weapons - us, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar - into the war against [Bashar] Assad. By pushing Assad back, we did create a safe space.

  Rand Paul

  War, Believe, Thinking

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against [Bashar] Assad, that we created a safe space or made that space bigger for ISIS to grow.

  Rand Paul

  Islamic, Thinking, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Personally, I like to hang out in the kitchen. That's my safe space in a party environment. I feel like it's a little quieter so you can actually have conversations with people, and anybody else who's also in the kitchen is probably someone I can have a decent conversation with.

  Hannah Hart

  Party, Space, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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