Mary Daly Quotes
Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I was tested against the best.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.
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I like wearing scarves in my hair because they make me look put together without taking a lot of time.
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The terms ‘male’ and ‘female’ must be understood as representing no more primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of differing quality, in either of which men and women may jointly move and live.
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Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'
