- Love
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a woman. I just think that's a fact. I really think less value is put in general on women's voices, across the board.
- Girly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite unusual in directing terms: I'm a woman. I'm quite a girly girl. I was never academic.
- Great Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think about it, I made history. Not only was I the first black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar, I was the first black British person.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like me, like Karen Elson and Soo Joo, we're a very specific woman with a very specific look. I think that's also why we last longer. There's no one else like us.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.
- Custodian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020