Anita Diamant Quotes
If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.

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Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was.
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.
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I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
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I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.
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I enjoy being on CNBC's 'Fast Money,' in part so that audiences can watch a woman who is as well informed about, and invested in, the market as her male counterparts.
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My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
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As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.
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I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
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I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.