"Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke."

-- Katha Pollitt

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“it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.”
“Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.”
“... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.”
“Stop judging life! Look at every event as blessed. It is offering you the fastest track to get onto your highest, happiest and most successful state. Your soul is working it all out perfectly. When you accept this you will make life amendments easily and lovingly. Then the pain stops and the joyous creation begins.”
“I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.”
“For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.”
“Once I get the horse where heâ€™s responding and working for ya and has a good frame of mind and a good attitude, itâ€™s not just the horse that needs fixing. Itâ€™s the human that needs fixing and itâ€™s the human that created that in the first place.”
“The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.”

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