Susannah Grant Quotes
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
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Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.
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I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.
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I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
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Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
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I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.
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I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white - we're all in it together.
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I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
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At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.
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For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
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I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.
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I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.
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Bolivar cannot carry double.
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If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground?
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I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.
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The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attention and desire. We shouldn't be weighed down with the responsibility of explaining our every move. We shouldn't have to apologize for wanting attention, either. We don't owe anyone an explanation.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.
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I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
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You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.
