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- 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
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a woman, taught nothing but the classics. They revered the great British and American writers.
- Defective
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- Nov 07, 2020
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I'm an American woman, and I write straight plays, it's always been sort of assumed I would never be done on Broadway. But that was never the goal.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the very beginning, women were editors because they were the people in the lab rolling the film before there was editing. Then when people like D. W. Griffith began editing, they needed the women from the lab to come and splice the film together. Cecil B. DeMille's editor was a woman. Then, when it became a more lucrative job, men moved into it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she's not the protagonist - and often, even if she is - feels like an imitation of what a woman is.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does - cook and a little bit of cleaning.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think about the biblical story of the woman at the well and how out of order her life was. Jesus pointed out she'd had five husbands and was living with a sixth. But Jesus chose her to be the one who would take the good news of the Messiah's arrival to her village.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steve was every woman's fantasy: macho but not a jerk, sensitive but not a wuss.
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- Nov 07, 2020