Source: The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
“I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.”
Margaret Hughes (1645–1719) British actress
On the reaction of male journalists to a female reporting cricket. Guardian obituary http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/feb/09/guardianobituaries.cricket
“The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.”
Steve Almond (1966) American writer
Source: Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
Padma Lakshmi (1970) Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer
Source: "Padma Lakshmi, Model, Actor And TV Host, Says Above All, She's A Writer" in NPR https://www.npr.org/2020/09/04/909583983/padma-lakshmi-model-actor-and-tv-host-says-above-all-shes-a-writer (4 September 2020)
“If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.”
Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946) Soviet politician
Quoted in "Words of the wise: a book of Russian quotations" - 1979
“A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.”
Katherine Dunn book Geek Love
Source: Geek Love
“You are a sick freak who should be beaten.”
Daniel Tosh (1975) American stand-up comedian
True Stories I Made Up (2005)
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist
Interview with Rynn Berry
Aimee Mann (1960) American indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960)
"Save Me"
Song lyrics, Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture (1999)
Context: You struck me dumb, Like radium
Like Peter Pan, or Superman,
You have come... to save me.
Come on and save me...
Why don't you save me?
If you could save me,
From the ranks of the freaks,
Who suspect they could never love anyone,
Except the freaks,
Who suspect they could never love anyone,
Except the freaks,
Who could never love anyone.
