On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.


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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER
My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER
The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER
We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER
Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER
Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fe...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER
I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than oth...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic d...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and h...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
PATRICIA RIGGEN
The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
PATRICIA RIGGEN
The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each ot...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don&#...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. A...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because the...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every sin...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days afte...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out t...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It ju...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the l...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
PATRICIA RIGGEN
When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all...
PATRICIA RIGGEN
It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
PATRICIA RIGGEN
I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON