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've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery.
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Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.
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I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you're hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things.
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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
