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" Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't. "
Kathleen Turner
Men
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Us
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" I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world. "
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" There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children. "
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" A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family. "
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" I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway. "
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" As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished. "
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" I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay. "
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Power
Man
" I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered. "
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Being
Desire
" This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life. "
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" I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand. "
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Want
" I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood. "
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Thought
People
" You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious. "
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People
Me
" I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women. "
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Women
Practical
" I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones. "
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Body
Experience
Respect
" What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that. "
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Need
Women
Admire
" I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs. "
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Believe
Say
Money
" Women are responsible for creating their own roles. "
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" It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough. "
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Change
Good
Never
" I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny. "
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Beach
People
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" The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence. "
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Between
Gap
Ability
" I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move. "
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Young
Admire
Cannot
" What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids? "
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Society
God
Education
" I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress. "
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Great
Good
Theatre
" I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them. "
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Good
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" I never took to Hollywood. "
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Never
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" I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me. "
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" I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring. "
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" The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly. "
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" I'm not a New York snob. "
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" I am certainly a liberal. "
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Certainly
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