I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
TAYLOR CALDWELL I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
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MAX MARTIN Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated i...
LUCILLE BALL If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machin...
CESAR ROMERO My adrenaline is definitely going, but it's mostly my real, laid-back persona carrying over on s...
KEVIN NEALON Inside of me, it was like my soul and what I had to do to feed my family was always split. I was wri...
TYKA NELSON I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position agai...
NORA EPHRON If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.
VICTOR KOO One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a pl...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING I have been married twice, but both of my wives have been too bright to be sucked in by women's ...
HARRY HARLOW This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin...
BECKY LYNCH I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It'...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there...
DAN COLEN Prostitution, perversion, and pornography are intertwined with independence and radical politics in ...
PATRICK CALIFIA-RICE When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s...
ELENA DELLE DONNE I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator,...
JOANNA LUMLEY I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attac...
ANTON CORBIJN I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever...
MINDY KALING After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's ...
DARREN BOYD I don't watch anything of mine much. I haven't gone to drama school, or college, either. I j...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the...
BILL NIGHY Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
BARBARA BUSH Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate i...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I ...
KARL LAGERFELD I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in ...
JENNY LEWIS 'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time,...
WILLIAM GIBSON It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women'...
KELLY CORRIGAN I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of th...
IMELDA MAY Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed ...
KAT GRAHAM I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it...
SEVYN STREETER I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's w...
AYUMI HAMASAKI When I was a kid, I would do Andrew Dice Clay jokes for my siblings. Like, we'd be on vacation, ...
NICK KROLL When I went around promoting 'Crumb,' there would be days I'd wake up in, like, Houston ...
TERRY ZWIGOFF I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
KATE WINSLET If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
CLINT EASTWOOD I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
CARLENE CARTER There are lots of people I'd like to work with. It would be fun to be in a movie with Mary-Kate ...
SKYE MCCOLE BARTUSIAK I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was ...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was ...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black m...
ISSA RAE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
BECKY LYNCH I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped....
TAYLOR DAYNE I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are suppo...
ASHLEY TISDALE Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'...
BILLIE JEAN KING Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I&...
KENNETH KOCH I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rath...
PARIS HILTON I'm obsessed with Kate Middleton. Obsessed. I loved the Royal Wedding. I was so cynical going in...
ANNE HATHAWAY I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be o...
MAYA ANGELOU I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to d...
DON RICKLES I'd love to do more comedy. It'd just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. S...
FELICITY JONES As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd ...
KATEE SACKHOFF I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting ...
HUGH GRANT I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. ...
JACK WILD I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent fem...
EVAN GOLDBERG Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It ...
RIHANNA If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rathe...
JAMES HETFIELD My signature jam is damson or quince, and it's called 'Kate's Sweet and Sticky'. Bas...
KATE MOSS Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and th...
SHEENA EASTON I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to ...
MICHAEL JORDAN I love Gwen Stefani. I'd watch what she'd wear over and over again and think, 'How do I ...
YUNA I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I do...
MICHAEL JOSEPH KELLY If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good...
ELTON JOHN The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scien...
BAHA'I INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents...
DAVID HENRIE Two people who I think have the world's most perfect skin are Cate Blanchett and Kate Bosworth. ...
SOPHIA BUSH Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove tha...
KATE MILLETT I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to d...
SAMUEL BARBER When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No wa...
IRELAND BALDWIN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his mo...
MATT DAMON I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was ...
JENA MALONE I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have ...
JOHN MCENROE Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say thi...
DIANE NEAL We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started th...
GEORGE FOREMAN For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doi...
EMMA CAULFIELD I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it'...
RENE RUSSO In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like t...
JULIA CHILD I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I...
SUTTON FOSTER I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d...
CHANNING TATUM I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's...
RICHARD GREENBERG I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, '...
BENNY BLANCO I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged...
LISA KLEYPAS It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty...
GRAEME BASE I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psyc...
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER I'm used to politics at an international level: people put together an argument and, even if you...
MOHAMED ELBARADEI I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, becau...
DAREN KAGASOFF I'd like to see the Amazon rainforests before they're all gone, and also the Galapagos - tha...
BILL ENGVALL I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I'd be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I'...
MIKE TROUT George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a ...
STEVEN WRIGHT People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thoug...
TRAVIS FIMMEL I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
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But the thou...
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And even though ...
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Three o clock, it's time to stop,
Thinking about what is not.
Tic tac, tic tac
May...
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KATE Those little boxes people put you in, while they should try the other sizes...
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Now I know what I did wrong all the ti...
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KATE No one knows that a simple and calculated decision for the one with potential, is the final end of t...
KATE Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up.
LAUREN KATE With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
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KATE FORSYTH I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like...
KATE MOSS Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no ...
KATE KLISE Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi...
KATE ATKINSON So the storm passed and every one was happy.
KATE CHOPIN Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex...
KATE GRENVILLE I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy st...
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KATE WINSLET I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
KATE WINSLET I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
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KATE WINSLET You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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KATE WINSLET I do have impossibly high standards.
KATE WINSLET Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all ...
KATE WINSLET Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
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KATE WINSLET The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
KATE WINSLET British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, ho...
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KATE WILLIAMS I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
KATE WILLIAMS One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think...
KATE WILLIAMS I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it'...
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KATE WILLIAMS I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women...
KATE WILLIAMS The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and fri...
KATE WILLIAMS Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history...
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KATE WILLIAMS Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of oth...
KATE WILLIAMS The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to t...
KATE WILLIAMS Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and pa...
KATE WILLIAMS I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems tha...
KATE WILLIAMS Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth a...
KATE WILLIAMS Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in pow...
KATE WILLIAMS I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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KATE WILLIAMS Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 m...
KATE WILLIAMS Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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KATE VOEGELE I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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KATE DICAMILLO I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
KATE DICAMILLO I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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KATE DICAMILLO I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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KATE DICAMILLO I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
KATE DICAMILLO I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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KATE DICAMILLO It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for ch...
KATE DICAMILLO I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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KATE DICAMILLO I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'...
KATE DICAMILLO Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
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KATE CLINTON What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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KATE CLINTON I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think i...
KATE CLINTON As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential r...
KATE CLINTON Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a le...
KATE CLINTON When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
KATE CLINTON I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times ...
KATE CLINTON A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said,...
KATE CLINTON Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
KATE CLINTON I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sund...
KATE CLINTON I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
KATE CHRISTENSEN I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beauti...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, lik...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done whi...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in...
KATE CHRISTENSEN At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely ...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli...
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