Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE

• Myself
• Feminism
• Sentiments
• Whenever
• Differentiate
• Precisely

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• Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.

  

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• When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

  

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• I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

  

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• It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.

  

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• I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.

  

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• Meditation helps me to calm down.

  

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• Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  

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• If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

  

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• Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.

  

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• Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.

  

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• I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.

  

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• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

  

  Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE
  • Myself
  • Feminism
  • Sentiments