Pauline Kael Quotes
Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
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We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative women, I want my customer to walk away with a silhouette that she doesn't even know what collection it comes from. That it just lasts in her wardrobe and makes her feel strong and confident and hopefully happy.
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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.
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Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
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Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.
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Liberals from California to Washington are fighting President Trump on illegal immigration.
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We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.
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An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.
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Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.
