- People
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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
- Graduate Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university as a woman in Iran.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Needless to say, I don't want a woman working for me who's waiting for me to shoot myself in the foot.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.
- Knees
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman is as young as her knees.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she looks.' I do too. It's just that I'm not very good at it.
- Intuition
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- Nov 07, 2020