"Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code."

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Source : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

Louise Bernikow

#Survival Quotes #Female Quotes #Facts Quotes

“It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.”
“Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.”
“Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn't mean that at all times memories are telling us the absolute truth, but that the main source of who we are is that memory, flawed or not.”
“Don't aim too high, but set yourself a goal which is a little bit out of your reach. You might achieve it and then you can set a new goal.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“I don't read my reviews, I measure them.”

Source : "The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett - an extraordinary story of ordinary life" by Charlotte Jones, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2016.
“You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.”
“All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.”
“I'm not the one who was elected." Although she disagreed with her husband on "a lot of issues," she emphasized, "I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.”

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