Elaine A. Cannon Quotes
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
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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?
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Every woman looks good in a flamenco dress.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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I like to make the best of what I have. I'm not a supermodel, clearly. I'm not a makeup artist. I'm a real woman.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.
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In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
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I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.
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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your cat, then very deliberately and very slowly blink. Like that. The cat will also deliberately, slowly blink back at you, and I almost guarantee that she will start to purr. That's a feline reassurance.
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Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed.
