Here in AMERICA, just as we SEE such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive LAWS against the rights of all SORTS of people - transgender people, gay people, women.

I think we've BECOME blind in this country to the WAYS in which we've managed to REINVENT a caste-like system here in the United STATES, one that functions in a manner that is as oppressive, in many respects, as the one that existed in South Africa under apartheid and that existed under Jim Crow here in the United States.

I actually FIND NOVELS that are determined to be funny at every turn QUITE oppressive.

Partitions and cubicles can be oppressive. They are so BORING.

We NEED to WORK on the WORLD so it will not be so oppressive.

The THING with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in PUBLIC or SOMEWHERE, and it's just, how INCONVENIENT that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.

Given the fact that I have a family and RESPONSIBILITIES, it's the MARK of a MAN to FIND the COURAGE to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

To some DEGREE we all find life DIFFICULT, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes WELL, as it may for a TIME, we worry that it probably won't KEEP on that way.

In an oppressive society the truth-telling NATURE of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more HIGHLY than other ELEMENTS in a WORK of ART.

They did laugh; they did FALL in LOVE. And while they were under incredibly oppressive CONDITIONS, they constantly were trying to steal pleasures. When you GO back to the slave narratives, and you read BOOKS like the 'Bullwhip Days' or 'Incidents in the Life of the Slave Girl,' they will share what life was like, and it's a 365-degree view.

A LOT of my FRIENDS aren't parents. I find this culture of all-consuming MOTHERHOOD so oppressive. Not that I don't like to TALK about my kids, but if I'm socializing, I don't WANT to talk about Montessori versus Waldorf.

To me, when you're at a HOTEL, and your home environment is ultimately DICTATED by somebody else, I ALWAYS find that a little BIT oppressive and scary in a WAY. Especially if it's not done well or not run well.

I grew up in a very DIFFICULT COUNTRY, a very oppressive situation because of the Somoza dictatorship. My family was in opposition to Somoza; Somoza was a LIBERAL, and my family were conservatives. These were the TWO traditional parties in Nicaragua.

Producing zines can OFFER an UNEXPECTED respite from the SCRUTINY on the INTERNET, which can be as oppressive as it is LIBERATING.