- Me
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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
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so blessed that I have been able to live long enough to see a woman nominated for president.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.
- Hard Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest turn-off is if a woman doesn't have a real passion for something... and bad breath!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love a smart, educated woman.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that evolves with time. I like things to be the same. For a woman I think it's fantastic to have things that are different - it's like a flower where every season there's some new exotic bloom.
- Nov 07, 2020
You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a healthy breath. Still, to say that life wasn't fair for this awkwardly glib, yet deeply religious woman, would fail to take into account her towering instinct for survival.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Queen Latifah was the first time I had ever professionally written with another woman of any color.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020