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Olympia Dukakis

"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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"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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A.E. Samaan

"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

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A.E. Samaan

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

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A.E. Samaan

"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

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A.E. Samaan

"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

"I hate women because they always know where things are."

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A.E. Samaan

"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."

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Olympia Dukakis
"The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain."

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Olympia Dukakis
"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!"

Woman

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Olympia Dukakis
"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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Olympia Dukakis
"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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Olympia Dukakis
"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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Olympia Dukakis
"So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today."

Woman

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Olympia Dukakis
"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."

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Olympia Dukakis
"I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness."

Life

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Olympia Dukakis
"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."

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Olympia Dukakis
"Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work."

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