Anne-Marie Quotes
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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Flowers are happy things.
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We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.
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Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.
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The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
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I've never, ever just been attracted to men. I've never just been attracted to women.
