“(Bartender Harry) What's your ethnic background? (Sylvia) Woman.”

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Cartoonist 1939

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 216

“(Bartender Harry) How can you tell the male bird from the female bird? (Sylvia) He's the one with the furrowed brow; she's the happy-go-lucky one…. He's the one reading the sports page; she's the one with 12 pairs of tiny shoes. (Harry) I don't have time for this.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 9

“No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way.”

Erin Gruwell book The Freedom Writers Diary

Source: The Freedom Writers Diary

“(Man in bar) I like an older woman. (Sylvia) I'll pass that along.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p.145

“No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

2000s, 2001, Freedom and Fear Are at War (September 2001)
Context: I ask you to uphold the values of America, and remember why so many have come here. We are in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.

“(Woman at typewriter) Dear Syl,... Is nothing forever? (Sylvia) Red wine on a white couch.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 111

“(Man in bar) The kind of woman I want just isn't around anymore. (Sylvia) Perhaps if you wait for a full moon.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 24

“(Man on television) Man is the hunter. Woman is the civilizing influence, and when women abandon that role, men become (Sylvia) Cranky, and start wars.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p.169

“(Television) Being a woman is as much a state of mind as a state of being. (Sylvia) Right. You stop paying attention, you might turn into a tuna.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 167