Karen Bender Quotes
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
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We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.
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I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.