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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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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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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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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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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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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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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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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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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I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.
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Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.
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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
