"I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don't, or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Todd Haynes

#Strong Quotes #Character Quotes #Men Quotes

“Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.”

Source : Bill Hybels (2014). “Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul”, p.82, Tyndale House
“Few people become assholes reluctantly.”

Source : Geoffrey Nunberg (2013). “Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years”, p.163, PublicAffairs
“The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself.”
“We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.”
“I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.”
“Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.”
“To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.”
“It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.”

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