Mare Winningham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.
Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade
My vocation is to make my life an act of worship
Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!

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