- Hate
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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
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm often drawn in by a description of a woman thinking something familiar that's never been articulated before, as in Diane Cook's 'Somebody's Baby' or Nina Berberova's 'The Tattered Cloak.'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to continue to grow in every way possible, as an actor, a woman, just as a human being in general. I think growth is just an all-around great idea.
- Forgives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
- Proposes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man proposes, woman forecloses.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Dartmouth College so simply by being an Indian-American woman, I was already so statistically interesting. And then the fact that I didn't want to do anything science-related, and I wanted to write comedy plays and act little bit - I mean, I became deeply interesting in college because of how rare that was.
- American Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of used to resistance.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020