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"Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization."
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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."

"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."

"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
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"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me."

"I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered."

"The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person."

"Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it."

"As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were."

"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."

"The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted."
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