Quotes
Authors
Elinor Guggenheimer
"Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is [older]. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television." --
Elinor Guggenheimer
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“Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.”
“We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.”
“My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.”
“Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.”
“Money should never change one’s values…. Making money is only a report card. It’s a way to tell how you’re doing.”
“When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.”
“To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. ... He recognizes no national goal except as it is the consensus of the goals that the citizens severally serve. He recognizes no national purpose except as it is the consensus of the purposes for which the citizens severally strive.”
“But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.”
