"We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected."

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Source : "Gayle T. Lemmon Talks About The Dressmaker of Khair Khana". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. June 05, 2011.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#War Quotes #Survivor Quotes #Victim Quotes

“You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.”
“As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.”
“A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.”
“We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.”
“I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode.”
“Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part... Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.”

Source : Sarah Mlynowski (2011). “Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)”, p.29, Harper Collins
“The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.”

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