#in

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too. ↗

— Annette Bening

#by the time #getting #had #happened #happening

Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?" ↗

— Annette Bening

#cameos #cannot #doing #fact #films

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed. ↗

— Annette Bening

#best #discussed #doing #everything #experienced

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#enough #hope #journalists #keep #know

I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#always #artist #being #ever #every

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak? ↗

— J.E. Seanachaí

#life-lesson #philosophy #wisdom #writing #life

All disgust is originally disgust at touching. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#originally #touching

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#human #human knowledge #interpretation #knowledge #takes

I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead. ↗