"There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers."

-- Dorothy Fields

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“I've learned to take the positive and negative, but that still kind of shook me. I'm human. I have moments when I sit back and wonder how doing something that makes me happy can possibly offend other people. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I don't have time for that.”
“The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.”
“When someone new comes on and has their first nude scene - and even if it's not full nudity - it's always a weird, awkward setup. We have these famous merkins which are sort of toupees for your delicate areas to make it look like you're naked but cover you up a little bit. But we joke around a little bit with the newbies who are trying that stuff on for the first time.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?”
“. . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitution, and self-destruction.”
“That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man”
“You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.”

Source : Richard N. Haass (1999). “The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization”, p.117, Brookings Institution Press
“It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.”

Source : John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.433, Wordsworth Editions

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