William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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.
Felicity Jones
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
Karin Slaughter
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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.
Ian McShane
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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?
Rachel Bloom
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Taylor Caldwell
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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.
Camille Paglia
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As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.
Kate Winslet
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Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.
Cameron Russell
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A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
W. G. Sebald
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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
Samantha Bee
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln
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All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
William Makepeace Thackeray
