- Learning
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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
- Carol
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to do a sitcom. I see myself as an older woman, getting married, and her stepchildren, who are in their twenties, move back home.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
- Dormant
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
- Dormant
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
- Deficient
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
- Nov 07, 2020
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman absent is woman dead.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from 'True Romance' magazine.
- Greatest City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020