Lynn Nottage Quotes
I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way into the mainstream media.
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
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Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because, if you have a problem with women, drugs, or whatever the case may be, the only person that can fix that problem is God.
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
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Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
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When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.
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Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'
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With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
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There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.
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If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
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You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
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Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
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I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
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If the Karmabanque hasn't worked, it's because there isn't yet a critical mass of people who are prepared to fight back and who instead prefer to be victims.
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I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way into the mainstream media.
