Joan Jett Quotes
I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
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I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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Women are amazing lovers.
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I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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I'm still going strong. I have been very blessed and still am. I love singing. Obviously, at my age, I don't tour with as many dates throughout the year as I did in the past. But I do this to honor my father who was also a singer. I still miss him and his encouragement.
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In their 20s, women try to be somebody they're not and try to turn themselves into something different. Now I'm in my 30s; I'm very happy with who I am.
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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
