"Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For most people it's the dessert - desirable, but no longer the main course."

-- Stephanie Coontz

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“The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.”

Source : "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.
“Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.”
“Youâ€™re a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.”
“The mind usually says, â€œI know, I know, I know.â€ But the â€œdonâ€™t-know mindâ€ is where wisdom lives.”
“Ive been told that if I lose weight Id have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to Hollywood standards. To the rest of the world I am slim and I like the way I am.”
“I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.”
“My life is great because I made it that way. Anything other than happiness doesn't get a pass key.”
“Latin women enjoy being women more than other women.”

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