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"We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!"
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"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
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"Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves."
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