- Look
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel when I'm in Europe.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T... Doesn't mean she isn't a good person. That's a funny character to play.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think every woman, maybe every man, looks in the mirror and says, 'Oh my God, there's a wrinkle.' So we're all in the same boat.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a black belt in martial arts. I like to drink scotch. I go skydiving. So I never really saw myself as a woman or a minority. I just went out there and did my thing, and it didn't even cross my mind.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, when I was a young lawyer starting out, I was so determined to prove that I was as good as the men and that I could be given the same opportunities as the men, and it wouldn't make any difference at all that I was a woman. But actually, looking back on it now, I did do things that I wouldn't recommend to other women at all.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I will say is that business is not a nice area. And you might say that I am a business woman, but I'm not into cut-throat business moves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I go for the designers is because they make me feel good. It's about finding clothes that make you feel good as a woman. If I like it, I'll wear it. You have to go with your instincts and not be led by trends.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020