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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
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of my customer as a woman who wants to look beautiful and be able to walk.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
- Shoes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
- Tradition
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020