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what color collar jobs are left... BOB EDWARDS There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're fa... BETTY WILLIAMS After 'Entourage,' it completely opened up my casting within the industry. People saw me for... AUTUMN REESER By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surp... GERARD BUTLER When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white m... JOHN LEWIS Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this rid... AMANDA DONOHOE I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other is... KEN BUCK When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently wri... 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I was quite afraid of t... STELLA MCCARTNEY When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, 'Women all over America are fightin... MEGHAN MARKLE I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism bac... RUSSELL PETERS I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitch... GEORGINA CHAPMAN I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was tha... DAVID CHASE Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I c... GARY SINISE A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. ... KARRINE STEFFANS When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff an... NICKI MINAJ I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't... KATE MULGREW Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you ... MICHAEL NUTTER Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn't afraid to say, 'Men get hurt too.' An... RITA ORA Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those o... JAMES E. FAUST I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done. NATALIE COLE Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You... DENNIS MUREN I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don'... ADAM DRIVER Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Wel... MARTHA MCSALLY If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by my... RON WHITE I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn... CARRE OTIS I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don... GILLIAN FLYNN The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I... ROMAN REIGNS I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because ... TOM JONES The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser... LARRY THE CABLE GUY I believe that there's good content or bad content. You see interviews when somebody interviews ... EMILIO AZCARRAGA JEAN All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausib... MICHAEL MORITZ I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and ... TEA LEONI Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it'... KATHLEEN HANNA I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that... MARIE OSMOND The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a... OCTAVIA SPENCER I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have e... FLOYD ABRAMS And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places yo... MORGAN FREEMAN I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of... CARL SANDBURG Back before our civilization despised itself, we applauded tough men. But you can't produce toug... MILO YIANNOPOULOS Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, wh... RYAN COOGLER I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to ... 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TROY POLAMALU I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive di... HOWIE MANDEL I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I thi... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was ... ELIZABETH PENA I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard b... BENAZIR BHUTTO Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is... PAULINE NEVILLE-JONES 'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig int... KARL MARLANTES I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a rela... EVAN GLODELL When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, '... HALIMA ADEN I had grand visions of being in professional sports. 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If we don't grow, we aren't really living. GAIL SHEEHY Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h... GAIL HAMILTON Everything seems simpler from a distance. GAIL TSUKIYAMA Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and... GAIL HAMILTON Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. GAIL GODWIN One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you... GAIL GODWIN Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer va... GAIL PARENT There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prost... GAIL SHEEHY To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. GAIL SHEEHY We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people ... GAIL SHEEHY When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. GAIL SHEEHY Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision... GAIL DEVERS The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal:... GAIL GODWIN Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer ... GAIL PARENT Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. GAIL DEVERS I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can... GAIL SIMMONS In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years... GAIL DEVERS I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a specta... GAIL SIMMONS Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find ... GAIL SHEEHY Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's ... GAIL SHEEHY When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I... GAIL KELLY Patience is the secret to good food. GAIL SIMMONS I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not goin... GAIL SHEEHY Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of... GAIL SIMMONS In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Pas... GAIL SHEEHY I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for wha... GAIL BLANKE There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they con... GAIL GODWIN If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. GAIL SHEEHY