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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that I'm there.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: 'Isn't that that Bening woman?'
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures!
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
- Boring Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020