Abi Morgan Quotes
Of course I am aware that there is a level of sexism in any large institution, but I find, in television and film, most of the producers are women.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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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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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
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I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
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I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
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Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.
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Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
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I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, 'I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.'
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Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.'
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We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
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When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
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Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.
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There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.
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Of course I am aware that there is a level of sexism in any large institution, but I find, in television and film, most of the producers are women.
