"I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do."

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"I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do."

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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."

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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."

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"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."

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"One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand."

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"I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk."

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"I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her."

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"I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!"

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"Winning is everything in Hollywood."

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"When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary."

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"You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you."

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"My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am."

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"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."

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"Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth."

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"Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA."

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