Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.


Barbara Deming

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BARBARA TUCHMAN
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN
I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE
In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE
The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE
I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE
If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so...
BARBARA STEELE
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE
I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
BARBARA STEELE
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs...
BARBARA STEELE
I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
BARBARA SMITH
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ...
BARBARA SMITH
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
BARBARA SMITH
This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER
You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER