- Body
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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
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
- Eras
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
- Invisible
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- Nov 07, 2020
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me it's hard, especially being a young African-American woman. My dad doesn't look like what you might call the 'safe' African-American male that America would accept, if you know what I mean.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
- Economic Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live.
- Film Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must tell you that Telugu film industry is one of the most comfortable places I found a woman can be. They do make a lot of mass films, but from my experience as an actor, I can tell you that people are very nice and welcoming. In fact, it's slightly more difficult in other places.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.
- Safe
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- Nov 07, 2020