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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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Brazil

• In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Different
  • Fear
  • Religion

• 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

• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • English
  • Baseball
  • Italian

• 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

• I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Mind
  • Together

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Success
  • Never
  • Doing

• I was born in New York in 1904.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Born
  • New
  • New York

• Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Great
  • Rise
  • Rise Above

• I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Think
  • Question

• It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • World

• The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Rocky

• In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • School
  • History
  • High

• There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Culture

• People love to talk, so let them have fun talking, I think they have an interesting, wonderful connection, so you knowWhat does dating mean? I don't know. I couldn't say. People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• My aim is to integrate business connections into vulnerable communities thus creating jobs.

  

  David Batstone
  • Business
  • Jobs
  • Aim

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Wanted
  • Terrible