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" For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them. "
Lina Wertmuller
Me
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" When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies. "
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" When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile. "
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" Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women. "
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" Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight. "
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