#rita laporte

[mistlestonebutch]

"The essence of butchness is interior, psychological, emotional— a form of psychosexuality as fundamental as heterosexual male, heterosexual female, or femme. Some butches are easily recognizable by outward manner and gesture by even the most naive heterosexual, but most have picked up from the prevailing culture outward behavior that makes 'passing' easy. Only the experienced eye of another lesbian can spot the little telltale gestures. A factor of consequence in this matter of behavior is the butch's own attitude toward herself. If early on she has fully accepted herself, she ceases to be concerned with every little gesture that might give her away. She presents a naturalness that offends no one despite her being thought of as a masculine woman. In contrast, the butch who fears herself, who is overly sensitive to the ridicule generally heaped upon the masculine woman, may suffer the torments of hell. Day in and day out she tries to disguise her inner masculinity; she may even manage to hide it from herself. To others she appears strange and unnatural. Though she has thoroughly accepted her lesbianism, she knows not what to do with this tender masculinity hidden within her. In some instances this leads to her taking the role of the femme. This is a curious inversion of her true self, one that points out the reciprocity or mirror-image aspect of butch-femme. For the qualities of butch and femme are not opaque to each other— the butch senses the nature of the femme by what it is she seeks in another, and vice versa. An analogy might be the right and left hands. These two hands, though the same in most ways, are also the exact reversals of each other."

- Rita Laporte, "The butch-femme question," from The Ladder (1971) [reprinted in The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (1992)]

[rhinestonebabe]

"We have all been thoroughly conditioned to think the adjectives male and masculine are interchangeable, as are female and feminine. This is a mental straightjacket under which not only lesbians but all of society suffers."

The butch-femme question, Rita Laporte

(The Persistent Desire: a butch-femme reader, pgs 208-9)

[haggishlyhagging]

Some of the most intense expressions of rage at males' limitations had been written in 1967 in Valerie Solanis' "SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto." (Solanis was not an activist in the organized feminist movement. She had worked for, and later shot, pop artist Andy Warhol.)

Being an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become female. He attempts to do this by constantly seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to live through and fuse with the female...

In the 1970s, other writers followed in Solanis' lead. Particularly close in wording were the women of CLIT (Collection of Lesbian International Terrors), who published three groups of articles.

In CLIT Statement #2, published in 1974, they wrote, "males aren't human."

...It is impossible for women and men to become more and more alike because all men are terminally male which means jealous hole/woman killer.

The truth of the matter, which all patriarchies since their conception have tried to suppress, is that women are not only superiojr sexually to men, but also intellectually and emotionally and every other way except for physical strength.

Others, such as lesbian writer Rita Laporte, used gentler terms but saw men as limited.

Only by banding together and following a leader can men find strength, for they are emotionally and spiritually weaker, more dependent and sheep-like, than women. This animal-like urge to band into groups, while giving the individual members a feeling of potency, also necessitates fighting to defend the prowess of their leader against other, exactly similar groups...

Women, on the other hand, are determined by no such group pull.

Women who wish to cooperate with other women do so on the human, not the animal, level. Not being pushed by instinct to fall into gangs behind a more powerful woman, they are free to join together intelligently and they are free to leave the group by intelligent choice when they feel the group is up to no good...

This makes it impossible for vast hordes of women to be led into activities destructive to the human race. At the same time it makes agreement harder to come by.

LaPorte is speaking very generally. There is surely less group violence by women than by men, but one could not say that women never join or stay in fascist or violent groups.

-Carol Anne Douglas, Love and Politics: Radical Feminist and Lesbian Theories

[beautiful-brides-weddings]

‘Men Aren’t Necessary’

What’s amazing about this 1969 article from the Reno Evening Gazette is that so much of what Rita Laporte said is still so true 50 years later. Women don’t need men and that still makes men “miserable” when they realize it. Men are still threatened “if a woman isn’t interested” and there is still “social pressure” on lesbians to “go straight” even though heterosexuality is “sheer misery” for us.

Lesbians are still “looking for love, emotional security and a home,” and notice that long before marriage equality was legal, Laporte says, “many happily married lesbian couples” had been living as wives “together for many years.”

[yesterdaysprint]

Reno Gazette-Journal, Nevada, October 10, 1969

[theheartoftv]

With her milestone 50th birthday just one week away, Mindy (Teri Hatcher) realizes she’s in the throes of a bonafide mid-life crisis. When her daughter Rita (June Laporte) comes home to their lake house for a long weekend with her girlfriend Emily (Matreya Scarrwener) and Emily’s uncle Sam (James Tupper) life throws her another curveball – Sam is Mindy’s former high school sweetheart she hasn’t spoken to in more than three decades. The weekend takes another unexpected turn when Rita confides in Mindy that she plans to surprise Emily with a proposal and wants her dad – Mindy’s ex-husband Marc (Brian Markinson) – to join them. Between two exes under one roof vying for Mindy’s affection and trying to talk Rita out of the big 50th birthday party she’s planning, Mindy has a lot to navigate. As the weekend progresses, an assertiveness inside her awakens and Mindy finds herself not only embracing her life, but discovering what it is she truly wants as she gets ready to start the next chapter.

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

TERI HATCHER AND JAMES TUPPER FIND THEMSELVES IN A ‘MID-LOVE CRISIS,’ A NEW ORIGINAL PREMIERING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, ON HALLMARK MOVIES & MYSTERIES  

STUDIO CITY, CA – September 19, 2022 – Teri Hatcher (“Desperate Housewives,” “A Kiss Before Christmas”) and James Tupper (“Big Little Lies,” “Revenge”) are one-time high school sweethearts who reunite in a surprising way in “Mid-Love Crisis,” a new original premiering Sunday, October 9 (9 p.m. ET/PT) on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Brian Markinson (“Mayor of Kingstown”), June Laporte (“When Calls the Heart”) and Matreya Scarrwener(“Lies Between Friends”) also star.

With her milestone 50th birthday just one week away, Mindy (Hatcher) realizes she’s in the throes of a bonafide mid-life crisis. When her daughter Rita (Laporte) comes home to their lake house for a long weekend with her girlfriend Emily (Scarrwener) and Emily’s uncle Sam (Tupper) life throws her another curveball – Sam is Mindy’s former high school sweetheart she hasn’t spoken to in more than three decades. The weekend takes another unexpected turn when Rita confides in Mindy that she plans to surprise Emily with a proposal and wants her dad – Mindy’s ex-husband Marc (Markinson) – to join them. Between two exes under one roof vying for Mindy’s affection and trying to talk Rita out of the big 50th birthday party she’s planning, Mindy has a lot to navigate. As the weekend progresses, an assertiveness inside her awakens and Mindy finds herself not only embracing her life, but discovering what it is she truly wants as she gets ready to start the next chapter.

“Mid-Love Crisis” is from Lighthouse Pictures. Shawn Williamson, Jamie Goehring, Trevor McWhinney Jonathan Shore and Fernando Szew are executive producers. Robert Lycar serves as producer. Terry Ingram directed from a script by Joie Botkin.

[lesbianherstorian]

clipping of a news article about rita laporte, president of the daughters of bilitis. published in the reno gazette journal, october 1969

[ljaesch]

English Cast Announced for the Skeleton Knight in Another World Anime

English Cast Announced for the Skeleton Knight in Another World Anime

©Ennki Hakari,OVERLAP/Skeleton Knight Project The English cast has been announced for the Skeleton Knight in Another World anime: Brandon Johnson is Arc Caitlin Glass is Ariane Emi Lo is Ponta Krystal LaPorte is Lauren Marisa Duran is Rita Additional voices: Matthew David Rudd Corey Phillips Kevin D. Thelwell Dominique North Jeff Jiffers David Lu Greg Silva Erica Muse Anthony Bowling James…

[recentanimenews]

Skeleton Knight in Another World English Dub Reveals Cast & Crew, Release Date

  Arc is going on another grand adventure! We're pleased to announce that we'll be pulling a certain reincarnated skeleton out of the closet for the first episode of Skeleton Knight in Another World's English dub, which will launch on Crunchyroll on April 28 at 2:30pm Pacific Time!

  Here's how the party is shaping up so far:

  Cast

  Brandon Johnson (Tadashi Kikuchi in Sk8 the Infinity) as Arc

Caitlin Glass (Winry Rockbell in Fullmetal Alchemist) as Ariane

Emi Lo (Myna Yatomika in 86 EIGHTY-SIX) as Ponta

Krystal LaPorte (Tina in Overlord) as Lauren

Marisa Duran (Lady Isabel Neville in Requiem of the Rose King) as Rita

  Additional voices:

  Matthew David Rudd

Corey Phillips

Kevin D. Thelwell

Dominique North

Jeff Jiffers

David Lu

Greg Silva

Erica Muse

Anthony Bowling

James Larabee

John Gerhardt

Anthony DiMascio

Jason Crawford Jordan

Alex Mai

Spencer Liles

  Crew

  Director: Jason Lord 

Assistant Director: Dani Chambers 

Engineers: Olivia Harris, Noah Whitehead, Ian Emerson

Writers: Tyler Walker, Marshall Willscythe

ADR Mixer: Neal Malley 

    Based on the light novels by Ennki Hakari and KeG, Skeleton Knight in Another World is directed by Katsumi Ono (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's) at Studio KAI and HORNETS, with series composition by Takeshi Kikuchi (Ragnastrike Angels) and character designs by Toru Imanishi (Super Cub).

  If you're a fan of isekai anime, don't miss Episode 1 of Skeleton Knight in Another World's English dub when it drops on April 28 at 2:30pm PT, right here on Crunchyroll!

      Der shy man behind @Shymander, Liam is a timezone-fluid Aussie with a distinct fondness for anime, Eurovision and creating odd stats projects despite hating math.

By: Liam Dempsey

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                                 QUASI STELLAR OBJECTS # 6

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⟶ OD BONGO (live AV)

OD Bongo est un trio qui marie les larsens vidéos d'Hugo Saugier à la musique de deux figures de l'underground techno, Somaticae (In Paradisium, Tanzprocess) reconnu pour ses beats indus sauvages, et C_C (ThirdType Tapes), docteur ès feedback et représentant des formes les plus radicales de dub. Le trio propose une longue plage industrielle et polyrythmique, à la recherche d'une transe psychédélique souvent mise de côté dans les productions techno contemporaines. Hugo Saugier transformera les murs du Le 100 ECS en écran éclaté à 360°.

⟶ RICHARD FRANCES & KONPYUTA (live AV)

Lors des performances du musicien Richard Francés et du duo de vidéastes Konpyuta, image et son entrent dans une troublante symbiose. Leurs “paysages synthétiques”, visuels et sonores immergent le spectateur dans une méditation synesthésique hors du temps, hypermoderne et archaïque. Le trio présentera un nouveau live technoïde et expérimental. Richard Francés est également membre de Juju et Pointe du Lac, et fondateur du label Hylé. Il collabore depuis 2012 avec Konpyuta, duo vidéo fondateur du groupe a/v Dasein et des soirées Quasi Stellar Objects.

⟶ DOMOTIC (live AV)

Que cela soit sous son nom de scène ou avec l’un de ses projets parallèles (Centenaire, Egyptology, Karaocake), Stéphane Laporte éclaire discrètement la musique pop-expérimentale depuis une quinzaine d’années. Ses performances live solo (récemment éditées au format cassette sur le label Err Rec ) explorent à la fois le bruit et la mélodie, la techno et l’ambient, l’écrit et l’improvisé, à l’aide de claviers analogiques et de machines à bandes. Son live sera accompagné d'un collage vidéo en work-in-progress. ⟶ Ambiance assurée par Sainte Rita entre les lives : musiques psychédéliques, ambiant, indus... ____________________ Quasi Stellar Objects programme des projections, des concerts et des lives AV (film, signal analogique ou numérique) avec pour mots d’ordre : singularité, radicalité, poésie. ____________________ Jeudi 28 novembre 2019 100 ECS, 100 rue de Charenton, Paris 12e Métro : Ledru-Rollin, Gare de Lyon De 20h à 23h - début à 20h30 précise Entrée 10 € - Tarif réduit 7 € Bar à prix ok

[come-join-themurder]

Hi there, not to criticize you, but why didn't your state do a mandatory evacuation? They track these things and they could have called for mandatory evacuation before it was supposed to hit. I hope you and your family do well and find all your animals/friends/ anything else you've lost

The main reason we didn't evacuate is because there wasn't enough time. By the time meteorologists determined that hurricane Harvey was going to stall inland and become stationary for several days before going back into the gulf and strengthening, there were only two days left till landfall. I know you're probably not from Texas or the Houston area, so I forgive you for not knowing, but in 2005 Hurricane Rita (a Cat 5) was barreling straight towards Houston and the city decided to evacuate its citizens. It took some people THIRTY SIX HOURS OR MORE to take a trip that would have, under normal conditions, taken only 3 hours due to the jammed/girdlocked roadways. Houston in itself has over 6 million people and that's not including all of the surrounding cities and areas that were in just as much danger that needed to evacuate as well. There were people who died trying to leave in 2005 just from being stuck on the road, car overheated/stalled, without access to food and water and necessities. Luckily, Rita wasn't a rain dumping monster so streets didn't flood, but HAD they evacuated Houston (and Tomball, Katy, Spring, Woodlands, Channelview, LaPorte, Kemah, Galveston, Seabrook, Dickinson, League City, Baytown, Crosby, etc) there would have been human beings STUCK on those roads with 2', 6' and as much as 17' of water on them. The loss of life would have been DEVASTATING in comparison to the 18 lost so far in the Houston area now. All roads would be impassable for emergency vehicles due to all the stuck vehicles on them, it would be a nightmare. And the homes and vehicles would still be flooded, MORE vehicles would be flooded actually. So no, it wasn't a viable option to evacuate the city because it wasn't known that the storm was going to do what it did until it was too late to safely remove over 6 million people.

[azveille]

Des représentants de bulletins sur les médicaments s'interrogent sur l'intérêt de l'EMA pour la pharmacovigilance

 L'Agence européenne du médicament (EMA) semble être peu intéressée par la pharmacovigilance, ce qui s'avère peu rassurant quant à un risque d'affaire sanitaire de grande ampleur de type Mediator* (benfluorex, Servier) ou Depakine* (valproate, Sanofi), se sont inquiétés vendredi des représentants de bulletins indépendants sur les médicaments européens.

Ils se sont exprimés lors d'un point presse de la revue Prescrire, qui organisait l'assemblée générale de l'International Society of Drug Bulletins, qui réunit des représentants de ces revues indépendantes centrées sur l'intérêt et la sécurité des médicaments, venus du monde entier.

Alors que se tient actuellement le procès Mediator* au tribunal de grande instance (TGI) de Paris, où le fondateur et l'actuel directeur de Prescrire ont été auditionnés mercredi (cf dépêche du 10/10/2019 à 17:42 et dépêche du 11/10/2019 à 12:46), la revue française a profité de la présence de personnes des pays voisins de la France pour organiser un point presse afin de leur demander comment Mediator* avait été autorisé (ou pas) puis retiré dans leur pays.

Cela a conduit notamment à rappeler qu'à l'époque où le produit a été mis sur le marché et jusque dans les années 1990, il y avait beaucoup moins de partages d'informations entre les agences nationales. Mais, interrogés par APMnews pour savoir si le rôle désormais plus central de l'Agence européenne du médicament (EMA), serait un avantage pour prévenir une nouvelle affaire de pharmacovigilance, ils se sont montrés dubitatifs.

"L'EMA ne tient pas ses fonctions de protection de la santé publique", a estimé Joan Ramon Laporte de l'université de Barcelone (Espagne) et de la revue Bulleti Groc. D'une part, il a cité l'affaire Depakine* (valproate, Sanofi) qui touche plusieurs pays européens, en estimant que l'agence européenne n'avait pas joué de rôle majeur en termes de pharmacovigilance, les avancées étant dues d'abord aux associations de patients.

D'autre part, "la nouvelle législation sur la pharmacovigilance date de 2010", a-t-il rappelé. Or, "entre 2000 et 2010, une quinzaine de médicaments ont été retirés du marché en Europe" en raison de problèmes de pharmacovigilance, et "entre 2010 et 2019, il n'y a eu aucun retrait, hormis celui d'une association paracétamol + dérivé d'opiacé".

Pour ce pharmacologue, cela ne traduit pas une meilleure action de l'agence mais, au contraire, un désintérêt de la pharmacovigilance. "En fait, l'EMA est très éloignée des systèmes de santé, très éloignée des professionnels de santé et très éloignée de la société". Il y a, selon lui, un manque de "volonté politique" sur ce sujet.

Pierre Chirac de Prescrire a renchéri en soulignant que, "dans la feuille de route de l'EMA pour 2025, il y a zéro fois le mot pharmacovigilance, ni aucun synonyme". Pour lui aussi, l'agence européenne "ne s'intéresse pas" de façon majeure à la pharmacovigilance.

Il a pointé une autre difficulté: l'impossibilité pour la France de retirer un médicament ayant eu une AMM européenne, si les autres pays n'en voient pas l'utilité. Dans ce cas, paradoxalement, les liens accrus avec les autres pays deviennent un frein.

Mediator*: la France en retard

Concernant Mediator*, les informations communiquées lors de ce point presse ont été des rappels de faits déjà connus, mais qui visaient à montrer que les agences de pays voisins avaient identifié bien avant l'agence française le caractère anorexigène et la dangerosité potentielle du produit.

Etzel Gysling de la revue suisse Pharma-Kritik a rappelé que le médicament avait été commercialisé, comme antidiabétique, mais n'ayant pas obtenu de remboursement, il avait été très peu utilisé. Et "quand les autorités suisses ont demandé d'ajouter aux informations sur le produits sa parenté avec les amphétamines, Servier a refusé et l'a retiré du marché", en 1998.

En Espagne, il a été retiré du marché en 2003 et son effet anorexigène a été mentionné à ce moment. Malgré le retrait, on pouvait encore trouver le benfluorex jusqu'en 2005 "dans des préparations magistrales", a déploré Joan Ramon Laporte.

En Italie, Rita Banzi de l'Institut Mario Negri de pharmacologie à Milan, a rappelé qu'en raison de son expérience sur les amphétaminiques dans les années 1970, Servier avait voulu collaborer avec ce centre de recherche indépendant, "pour évaluer les effets amphétaminiques et anorexigènes du benfluorex". Mais le laboratoire a arrêté sa collaboration quand le directeur du centre a écrit à l'EMA pour demander le retrait du médicament, dans les années 1990. "Cela a pris 5 ans" pour que le produit soit retiré en Italie, "officiellement par Servier" lui-même.

En France, la commercialisation de Mediator* a été suspendue en novembre 2009, rappelle-t-on.

[marcusssanderson]

79 Inspirational Quotes About Comparison To Others

Find yourself on social media comparing your life to others, a little too much? Looking for uplifitng quotes about comparison?

From the time we are small, we learn to compare ourselves to others. At a young age, it is our way of making sense of things, of figuring out our place in the world. This can be fine if you have a strong sense of self and self-esteem.

However, if in comparing yourself to others, you decide that you are NOT as good as others, or not as capable, nor as likely to succeed, it can be very detrimental.

As we get older and develop a stronger sense of self, knowing that comparing ourselves to others is NO longer necessary can be a very powerful and liberating concept. You can have many small victories along the way, and allow yourself to celebrate them.

Here are some wonderful quotes about comparison to others – and what you can learn from them.

  Uplifting Quotes about Comparison To Give Us Perspective

1.) “The only person you should try to be better than is who you were yesterday.” – Unknown

  2.) “Have more than you show, and speak less than you know.” – William Shakespeare

3.) “Don’t compare yourself to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.”- Regina Brett

4.) “We’re only envious of those already doing what we were made to do. Envy is a giant, flashing arrow pointing us toward our destiny.” – Glennon Doyle Melton

5.) “Focus on your journey, not the destination.” – Greg Anderson

6.) “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel

  7.) “Everything in life is easier when you don’t concern yourself with what everybody else is doing.”

8.) “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

9.) “Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.” – Shannon L. Alder

10.) “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey

11.) “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

12.) “Let it go. You can’t move forward if you keep looking back.” – April Harding, ‘Finding Peace, Fulfillment, and Contentment Being Single’

13.) “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside you.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  14.) “You don’t have to do what everyone else is doing.”- Oprah

  15.) “Do what works for you. You don’t have to be Michael Jordan; you just have to do what you’re comfortable with.”

16.) “Don’t compare your beginnings to someone else’s middle.” – Tim Hiller, ‘Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters’

  17.) “Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”- Fannie Flagg

  18.) “Channel your envy into purpose.”

  19.) “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.”- Brené Brown

  20.) “Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?” – Danielle LaPorte

  21.) “Stay true to yourself.”- Selena Gomez

  22.) “I will not reason and compare; my business is to create.” – William Blake, Jerusalem

  Beautiful Quotes To Stop Comparing Yourself To Others

23.) “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

  24.) “How many times each day do you mean to say one thing, and say another instead, because you’re worried about what others might think?”

  25.) “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” – Bernard M. Maruch

26.) “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe

  27.) “Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” – Allen Ginsberg

  28.) “Faithless to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  29.) “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

  30.) “About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.” – Rita Mae Brown

  31.) “Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.” – Gerard Way

  32.) “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” – Philip Pullman

  33.) “You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?” – Dr. Seuss

  34.) “Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one’s particular life path might appear to one’s self or others at any given moment.” – Genesis P-Orridge

  35.) “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” – Coco Chanel

More Quotes about Comparison

  36.) “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” – Mahatma Gandhi

  37.) “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland

  38.) “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” – E.E. Cummings

  39.) “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” – William Shakespeare

  40.) “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

  41.) “Where’s your will to be weird?” – Jim Morrison

  42.) “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational Quotes on Comparing Ourselves To Others

The act of comparison is an act of violence against the self. Be your own cheerleader. STOP comparing yourself with others and focus on how you can become the best version of you.

Embrace your personal victories and combat your challenges head-on. Don’t compare your chapter one to somebody else’s chapter 50.

Here are more motivational quotes about comparison.

    43.) “If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” – David Carradine

  44.) “I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” – Steve Maraboli

  45.) “There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.” – Anton Chekhov

46.) “I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

  47.) “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

  48.) “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” – Homer    

  49.) “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” – Ru Paul

  50.) “They can’t scare me, if I scare them first.” – Lady Gaga

  51.) “Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.” – Gianni Versace

  52.) “Our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

  53.) “An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.” – Balzac

  54.) “When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” – Picasso

  55.) “Follow your own star!” – Dante Alighieri

56.) “You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you – so be you proudly.” – Tegan Quin

  57.) “Don’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.” – Jaedade Walt

  58.) “If you want to be yourself, sometimes you can’t compare the economic benefit with art.” – Kelly Liang

  59.) “To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” – Bono

  60.) “Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.” – Henri Frederic Amiel        

  61.) “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” – Benjamin Disraeli

  62.) “If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.” – Johann von Goethe

    More Quotes about Comparison

63.) “The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  64.) “At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

  65.) “We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.” – Andre Berthiaume

66.) “One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.” – Oscar Wilde

  67.) “Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in…” – Janeane Garofalo

  68.) “Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.” – Angelina Jolie

  69.) “I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.” – Bobby Brown

  70.) “How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we’re not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?” – Katie McGarry

71.) “Don’t dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.” – Steve Mariboli

    What are your thoughts on these quotes about comparison? What other comparison quotes would you add to the list?

When you decide that the only person you have to please is yourself, you can also decide WHAT your definition of good and successful are. This can be empowering, therapeutic, and motivating.

If the only person you are competing with is yourself, you can set realistic, attainable, and rewarding goals.

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Back Row: LaPorte, Eleanor Townsend, Viola Ploof, Dorothy Stone (teacher), Paul S. Townsend, Marion Townsend, Ruth Grey, Clarence Robinson.

2nd row: Charlotte Stewart, Francis Robinson, Priscilla + Donald Robinson, Rita Morse, Lester LaPorte, Winifred Masy, Catherine Kidder.

Front row: Roger Morse, Roger Kidder, Arthur Clark, Stanley Gray, Harry Kidder.

1930, at Meriden Rd. District School, Lebanon, NH.

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Tamera Mowry-Housley, Teri Hatcher and James Denton Lead Hallmark's October Movie Lineup

ET also premieres an exclusive first photo from Denton's music-centric film for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, Perfect Harmony (see above), where he shares the screen opposite Sherri Saum (The Fosters). The Desperate Housewives and Good Witch alum is back in the Hallmark fold for the movie, where he plays Jack, the best man to Saum's maid of honor, Barrett, in their friends' nuptials.

HALLMARK CHANNEL'S "FALL INTO LOVE"

All premieres are at 8 p.m. ET/PT

Girlfriendship

Starring: Tamera Mowry-Housley, Lyndie Greenwood, Krystal Joy Brown and Brad James

Premieres: Saturday, Oct. 1

After a booking mix-up, Samara’s (Mowry-Housley) birthday getaway turns into a week-long retreat on Edisto Island, in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, where she and her two best friends (Greenwood and Brown) rediscover their passions, their purpose and romance.

Pumpkin Everything

Starring: Taylor Cole, Michael Ironside and Corey Sevier

Premieres: Saturday, Oct. 8

Based on the novel by Beth Lebonte. Amy (Cole) is a novelist who returns to her hometown to look after her stubborn grandfather, Tom (Ironside), and his pumpkin-themed store. While there, she crosses paths with a man (Sevier) from her past.

Autumn in the City

Starring: Aimee Teegarden and Evan Roderick

Premieres: Saturday, Oct. 15

Piper Grant (Teegarden) moves to New York for a fresh start and to find her career passion. As she bounces between different exciting temp jobs that take her all over the city, she meets Austin Edwards (Roderick), an aspiring writer. While Piper’s sunny optimism is at odds with Austin’s jaded personality, the magic of the autumn season soon brings them closer together. When Piper realizes her true passion is illustration, they decide to team up on a children’s book project, and in the process, they discover the thing they’re really searching for might be each other.

HALLMARK MOVIES & MYSTERIES

All premieres are 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Nikki & Nora: Sister Sleuths

Starring: Hunter King and Rhiannon Fish

Premieres: Sunday, Oct. 2

Fraternal twins Nikki (King) and Nora (Fish) are forced back into each other’s lives when they inherit a detective agency. As they solve a murder, they realize their differences may be their greatest advantage.

Mid-Love Crisis

Starring: Teri Hatcher, James Tupper, Brian Markinson, June Laporte and Matreya Scarrwener

Premieres: Sunday, Oct. 9

With her 50th birthday a week away, Mindy (Hatcher), a divorced teacher, finds herself in the throes of a bona fide mid-life crisis. The timing isn’t ideal, as it coincides with a long weekend visit from her daughter, Rita (Laporte), and Rita’s girlfriend, Emma (Scarrwener), who comes along with her uncle, Sam (Tupper) … Mindy’s former high school sweetheart she hasn’t spoken to in over three decades. Her ex-husband, Marc (Markinson), gets thrown into the mix at Rita’s request, adding to Mindy’s angst. Between two exes under one roof vying for her affection and trying to talk Rita out of the big 50th birthday party she’s planning, Mindy has a lot to navigate as she learns to embrace her life and discover what she truly wants as she starts the next chapter.

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