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Doris Roberts

"I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives."

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"I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives."

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"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news."

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"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."

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"I am my own woman."

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"There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices."

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"Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up."

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"Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women."

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"No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone."

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"I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there."

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"I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart."

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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."

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"Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that."
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"I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet."
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"You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady."
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"You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car."
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"There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra."
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"With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me."
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"You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it."
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"I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide."
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"My awards are lovely. I love to show them of."
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"You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not."
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