A. S. Byatt Quotes
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.
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I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
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For me a day without training is like a day without eating.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
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When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
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Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.
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'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.
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It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
