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"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."

"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."

"Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top."

"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."

"No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office."

"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."
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"People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart."

"I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot."

"Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids."

"I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did."

"I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles."

"I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me."

"It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too."

"I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out."
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