"I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world."

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Source : "Pauline Neville-Jones: 'Some say I didn't make it easy on myself'". Interview with Nick Hopkins, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2011.

Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

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“Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.”
“An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.”
“A major contributor to the present-day tendency to accept and encourage homosexuality is Dr. Sigmund Freud.”
“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.”
“We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.”

Source : Katherine Catmull (2012). “Summer and Bird”, p.61, Penguin
“To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational, public relations, etc. But the flaw in all that is that we have designed them primarily for comfort, profit, power, control, and entertainment rather than for collective intelligence, sanity, and wisdom.”
“I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike”
“You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement.”

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