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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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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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 didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
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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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Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
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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 will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people.
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Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.
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I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.
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The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
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You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.
