"People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be."

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Source : "Interview: Gretchen Mol (The Notorious Bettie Page)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. April 14, 2006.

Gretchen Mol

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Feminist Quotes

“We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.”
“One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'”
“Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center”
“Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.”
“I came to graduate school with a certain vocabulary about how to talk about other people's stories, but I couldn't understand how to look at my own stories in that way. And that was what made editing such a challenge for me.”
“Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.”
“[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror...”
“The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.”

Source : Edmund Husserl (2008). “Introduction to Logic and Theory of Knowledge: Lectures 1906/07”, p.252, Springer Science & Business Media

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