Gail Levin Quotes

I don't think she [Marilyn Monroe] saw herself as victimized and a sex object. She knew how to contend with it. I'm sure she was no fool about it. On the one hand, it was very flattering and great; on the other hand, it was probably awful and could be very lascivious and very terrible. But I think a lot of women just wanted to be like her. And that's still true today.

Gail Levin

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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Samuel Butler
- Women
- Stand
- Weapons
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

Irene Rosenfeld
- Father
- Think
- Son
Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

Natalie Goldberg
- Real
- Done
- Why
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Fiona Shaw
- Money
- Done
- True
I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.

Tali Lennox
- People
- World
- Value
My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

Rae Dawn Chong
- People
- Real
- Dad