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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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"You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting."
"A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight."
"I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me."
"I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around."
"I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away."
"Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one."
"I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence."
"Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work."
"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."
"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."
"When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin."
"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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