- 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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.
- Romantic
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
- Take For Granted
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in terms of freedom and liberation.
- Certain Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be a bombshell; I wanted to be an actor. I would much prefer to be a woman than a man, but if I was a dude, maybe I'd have Johnny Depp's island because women in this industry after a certain age definitely don't get to do 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.
- Nov 07, 2020