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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

Beautiful
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Nov 07, 2020

I'll tell you what it is... just why 'Wonder Woman' worked. Or 'Bionic Woman,' or any of those, really. It was because it wasn't about brawn... it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy.

Quotes by Lynda Carter

More
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Nov 07, 2020

I had read the 'Wonder Woman' comic books when I was a child; I was much more interested in those than I was in 'Betty and Veronica,' even though I liked those as well.

Quotes by Lynda Carter

Nov 07, 2020

Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

Quotes by Lynda Obst

People
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Nov 07, 2020

People expect me to be with some stripper... That's just the kind of woman I work with.

Quotes by Luther Campbell

May
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Nov 07, 2020

America may be the home of feminism, but I don't think the electorate will allow a woman to be president.

Quotes by Lydia Hearst

Nov 07, 2020

Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.

Quotes by Lydia Leonard

Ale
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Nov 07, 2020

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

Quotes by Lydia M. Child

Long
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Nov 07, 2020

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.

Quotes by Lupe Ontiveros

Mean
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Nov 07, 2020

I think woman is phenomenal, magnificent. I mean that sincerely.

Quotes by Luke Goss

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

Quotes by Lucy Liu

Freedom
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Nov 07, 2020

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

Quotes by Lucy Stone

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

Quotes by Lucy Stone

Nov 07, 2020

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

Quotes by Lucy Walker

Hope
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Nov 07, 2020

I'd been the girl, aged about 10, who'd twirl around her bedroom each night in the hope of waking up the following morning, having been transformed into Wonder Woman.

Quotes by Lucy Davis

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

Quotes by Lucille Ball

Nov 07, 2020

The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.

Quotes by Lucille Roybal-Allard

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Quotes by Lucretia Mott

Find
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Nov 07, 2020

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

Quotes by Lucretia Mott

Hair
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Nov 07, 2020

Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.

Quotes by Louise Mensch

Mistake
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Nov 07, 2020

I think we make a common mistake of all wanting to look younger, and I think there is nothing more attractive, charming and endearing than when you meet a woman and you think she looks amazing for her age rather than 20 years younger because of this, that and everything else.

Quotes by Louise Nurding

A comedy-focused quote credits performers who had to prove themselves far more than their male peers to earn a place, connecting personal experience to a longer legacy of women in the field. Continue with Love or Life.

Woman Quotes

On being seen, and being heard, as a woman.

A comedy-focused quote credits performers who had to prove themselves far more than their male peers to earn a place, connecting personal experience to a longer legacy of women in the field. Continue with Love or Life.

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