#omen

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#angels #being #complicated #demons #edge

Dans la femme parée, la Nature est présente, mais captive, modelée par une volonté humaine selon le désir de l'homme. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#female-beauty #objectification-of-women #patriarchy #women #beauty

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#betray #i #me #moment #poem

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#except #had #i #movement #rights

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#far #how #how far #limit #revolution

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#first time #i #moments #olympia #pregnant

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#feel #i #interiors #knitting #living

If you stand up for women, then don't bash me. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#me #stand #stand up #then #up

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#big #come #computer #course #day

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#believes #considerations #considers #development #fascism