Ina May Gaskin Quotes
It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I don't know what happens at radio as far as what is that X factor that makes a song click and have people get connected to it when it's in another language.
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Seriously, I thought it would be one of those things that would just come and go.
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I'm approaching the idea of taking on a responsibility as great as saying, "I'm good enough to be in your movie." It's a huge statement to make, and every time I do it, I think, "Is this the right choice?"
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The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
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I think clothes hang beautifully on thin women.
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It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.
