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1 " He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been able to contemplate it fixedly might have led to something; and found consolation in trifles so slight compared with the august theme just now before him that he was disposed to slur that comfort over, to deprecate it, as if to be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. "
― Virginia Woolf , To the Lighthouse
2 " What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience? "
― Grantly Dick-Read
3 " To slur “feminism” into “humanism” is to usurp women’s voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine. "
― Gina Barreca
4 " The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale. "
― Laurie Penny , Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet
5 " So there is nothing inherently subversive about pleasure. On the contrary, as Karl Marx recognized, it is a thoroughly aristocratic creed. The traditional English gentleman was so averse to unpleasurable labour that he could not even be bothered to articulate properly. Hence the patrician slur and drawl, Aristotle believed that being human was something you had to get good at through constant practice, like learning Catalan or playing the bagpipes; whereas if the English gentleman was virtuous, as he occasionally deigned to be, his goodness was purely spontaneous. Moral effort was for merchants and clerks "
― Terry Eagleton
6 " On matters where it is difficult or impossible to pin the blame for their policies' failures on conservatives, the fallback position has been to hurl a slur at anyone pointing out the obvious failure....The left's never-ending use of these worn-out attacks on the character and motivations of those who disagree with them has caused them to lose their effect....At the ground level, since liberals have lost the ability to win any and every political discussion by hurling a slur, they are simply resorting to the next level in political interaction: violence and physical intimidation. "
7 " This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time. "
― Wendell Berry , Fidelity: Five Stories
8 " Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all. "
― DaShanne Stokes
9 " I banned the use of fat as a slur hurled toward myself and strangers. I'm not saying I don't see fat; saying that is akin to the people who make grand statements about 'not seeing color.' Seeing color doesn't mean you're a racist. It means your eyes work, but that you are hopefully able to see color not for a discrepancy in normal, but as a beautiful component of diversity. "
― Brittany Gibbons , Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It
10 " When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties "
11 " Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears. "
― Sheila Heti
12 " Many suburban legislators representing affluent school districts use terms such as " sinkhole" when opposing funding for Chicago's children. " We can't keep throwing money," said Governor Thompson in 1988, " into a black hole." The Chicago Tribune notes that, when this phrase is used, people hasten to explain that it is not intended as a slur against the race of many of Chicago's children. " But race," says the Tribune, " never is far from the surface... "
