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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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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'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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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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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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Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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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 was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!
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He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
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I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of 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.
