"Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes."

-- Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#Powerful Quotes #Motherhood Quotes #Two Quotes

“There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.”

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“True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.”
“Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”
“The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.”
“The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I'd grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting.”
“I could be a comedian. I could be a gangster. I could play all of those parts, even for the first time... I'm versatile.”

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“Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look.”
“You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.”

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