William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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I'm a strong woman.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
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Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
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Successful women don't sleep until noon.
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I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.
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When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.
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All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
