- Nov 07, 2020
Woman Quotes
On being seen, and being heard, as a woman.
This set touches on the extra scrutiny women face in performance careers and the emotional stakes of being noticed romantically. For related identity-focused lines, see I Am.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
- Excluding
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a woman's decision about when they choose to have children, and it should not predetermine whether or not they are given a job or have job opportunities.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be a good leader, not a good lady leader. I don't want to be known simply as the woman who gave birth.
- Nov 07, 2020