Estelle Parsons Quotes
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
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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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So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
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All artists are crazy.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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I often don't read reviews.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
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At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.
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Make no mistake: Restoring our economy is very much a women's issue.
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I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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I first wrote about Michael Jackson in the 1980s. His skin was growing paler, his features thinner, and his aura more feminine. Some called him a traitor to his race. Some fussed about his gender fluidity. I saw him as a post-modern shape-shifter. But the shifts grew more extreme and mysterious.
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At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.
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I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
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I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.
