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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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?
Amy Lowell
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I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.
Sammy Hagar
Van Halen
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The big problem with motherhood of girls, it seems to me, is that we're both women.
Elizabeth Noble
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I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
Mandy Moore
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All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
William Makepeace Thackeray
