I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.
To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.
It's always better to step down from the pedestal than to be pulled off of it.
Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.
When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same.
Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.
When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
I'm not trying to put our women on a pedestal that they don't deserve to be on. No man is a "man" without a woman: It's a woman that helps the man to be a man.
