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" If a woman is successful, then she's deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we're all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn't seem to me to have changed an iota. "

Glenda Jackson

Woman

Gender

Kind

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" What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore. "

Glenda Jackson

Age

Barriers

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Glenda Jackson

Money

You

" I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music. "

" No, I'm not recognized in London. What would people recognize? "

" I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition. "

" It always amazed me - it still does - that people offer me work. And when the theater was my basic bread and butter, every time a show finished, I was convinced I would never work again. "

Glenda Jackson

Bread

People

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