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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -Rebecca West.


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REBECCA WEST I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from ...
REBECCA WEST People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pros...
REBECCA WEST People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pr...
REBECCA WEST How is it that I am completely naked while you haven’t shed even one stitch of clothing?”
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KRYSTAL SHANNAN I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
JACKEE HARRY Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I ha...
ISABEL ALLENDE Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. . . . My family comes from the west coast, so whenev...
BILLY CONNOLLY I have more purpose in my life. I didn't think I could ever say that. Whenever people call me I go a...
JOANNE HOPTON I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are dif...
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA To this day, there is nothing about Rebecca I don't like,
CHRIS HARDWICK It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted to tur...
LAUREN ALCORN What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it ...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky ...
REBECCA WELLS Rebecca is one of the people that the chamber can always count on.
LIBBY GIERACH Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a...
IVO ANDRIC I myself never feel that I'm sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.
COCO LEE Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn&...
FATEMA MERNISSI I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by pe...
BRIAN CROZIER I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by pe...
BRIAN CROZIER I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I am just me. I like boxing and acting and doing my charity w...
NICOLA ADAMS I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibi...
CALLIE KHOURI I can't stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let...
SPIKE MILLIGAN It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I d...
MEAT LOAF Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be...
R.B. O'BRIEN Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustr...
NORMAN ROCKWELL I don't compare myself with Freida Pinto. She has come a long way. She does only films in the We...
TENA DESAE I left the court feeling sure that Rose West would never walk free again. That thought made me happy...
STEPHEN RICHARDS You cannot take what I already know from me. You cannot withhold what I do not know from me because ...
SHANTELEE R. BROWN Our season was never in jeopardy, ... Rebecca is a graduate assistant. She said some things out of c...
FRANK GRAZIANO Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.
NORA ROBERTS You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more i...
KATHERINE DUNHAM People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don&#...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want ...
CINDY CRAWFORD I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, bu...
OLGA FONDA Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that the...
DEYTH BANGER I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of...
KATE VOEGELE I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which ...
CALDWELL O'KEEFE I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. ...
MARTI NOXON I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myse...
JACKIE EVANCHO As a movement (rather than a preference), the goal of antinatalism is that no humans should have chi...
QUENTIN S. CRISP For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you&#...
COBIE SMULDERS Look, I know that there are people who are racist, but what surprised me was that he was so open abo...
ALFONSO SORIANO It's rare that anyone says what this medical study does, even if in the driest way possible "Being m...
REBECCA SOLNIT Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crush...
SHERI L. DEW I've never been very much of what I call a politician, ... But for me to think that this is not poli...
BOB BARNETT Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my s...
HERMAN MELVILLE Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my s...
HERMAN MELVILLE Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have...
E. B. WHITE I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call mysel...
STEVEN SPIELBERG I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio...
ERNIE HARWELL I have to make sure that I don't silence myself about the things that I believe in, because some...
KERRY WASHINGTON I have absolutely no regrets coming to West Point. The military, I think, is a good fit for me. I am...
ANDY YAKULIS Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I wi...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewelle...
PATRICK NESS I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.
RAY CHARLES I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the year...
DAVID SIMON We would love to bring a playoff game back to the city of Denver. Trust me, I know we haven't won th...
AL WILSON If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Th...
THIA MEGIA Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.
DODIE SMITH I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there...
WANGARI MAATHAI Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of ...
E. B. WHITE I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told...
ADELE The mystique of the American West is what runs this place. That image of the West still strikes peop...
BOB SHIMP I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to lim...
ANDRES SERRANO I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ...
PAT BUCKLEY Sometimes I played because I wanted to get out of a bad mood, sometimes because I was worried about ...
REBECCA LOBO In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizin...
MARLO THOMAS I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS We should go straight west. The prophecy said west."
"Oh, like your tracking skills are better?...
RICK RIORDAN I know West Canada didn't have a real good shooting night but I think sometimes our defense created ...
BRIAN ELLIS I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's never been a sign, there's never been a letter. The only phone call they got was from me.
ELIZABETH SCOTT I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in Wes...
JOHN RAESE I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express em...
DIANE KRUGER The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before yo...
AL PACINO The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist st...
CHRISSIE HYNDE I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time i...
VICTORIA CLARK Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know wha...
NUNO ROQUE We like Congress to know that Lafayette-West Lafayette is a vital community and a contributing commu...
DANA SMITH You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just ...
MARY ARONSON I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.
CARINE ROITFELD I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jump...
JOHN RAESE I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.
RICHARD PAUL EVANS His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed.
He's letting me go.
I think I've made m...
JAY ASHER Look at your lovely red hair They say to me at last That wasn't what they used to say In my childhoo...
ROSIE MILLER Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever ...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of m...
CHRISTINE QUINN What's been nice is that I've been able to direct from a very idealistic place. I've nev...
BILL PAXTON I've always been able to control myself. If I go back down and the Tigers find something I have to w...
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REBECCA HALL I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer ...
REBECCA FERGUSON I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly gett...
REBECCA FERGUSON I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the ti...
REBECCA SUGAR Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't ...
REBECCA FERGUSON We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster...
REBECCA SOLNIT There's so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the 'Am I good, am...
REBECCA HALL The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggle...
REBECCA SOLNIT I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Be...
REBECCA LOOS …I’m afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important�...
REBECCA MCNUTT If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is...
REBECCA SOLNIT What are you doing?” Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him t...
REBECCA MCNUTT She dug into one of the boxes, finding clay angels she’d made in art class when she was seven year...
REBECCA MCNUTT Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially ...
REBECCA MCNUTT The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me.
REBECCA MCKINSEY I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone...
REBECCA SOLNIT I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering...
REBECCA MACKINNON I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into n...
REBECCA MILLER I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying ...
REBECCA HALL Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolu...
REBECCA MACKINNON In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the ...
REBECCA TRAISTER I'm a very private person. I barely tell my friends what's going on half the time, so the id...
REBECCA HALL You scare me, Ryan Daley. Even more than those demons outside that scream for my death. How is it th...
REBECCA LIM I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people...
REBECCA FERGUSON It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and i...
REBECCA MACKINNON Tell me again about the girl whose hands
have no color. Whose hands are completely
white. ...
REBECCA WADLINGER