“Americans like fat books and thin women.”
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women
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“Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?”
“It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.”
“I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.”
“All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.”
“Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.”
“I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.”
“We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.”
“Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.”
“No one knows what women want!”
“Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.”
“Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.”
“I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.”
“It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.”
“I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.”
“There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.”
“The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.”
“People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.”
“Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”
“I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.”
“Women are still second-class citizens.”
“When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.”
“I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.”
“I think older women still have a full life.”