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"I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish."
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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."
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"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."
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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"
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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."
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"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
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"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."
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"The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse."
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"As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them."
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"I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape."
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"I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean."
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"I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish."
Woman

"I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around."
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"My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want."
Time

"I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard."
Men

"I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that."
People

"I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell."
Mother

"Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of."
Woman
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