Julie DelpyRomantic Too many women throw themselves into romance because they’re afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won’t do that. – Julie Delpy Afraid Quotes Compromises Quotes Identity Quotes Losing Quotes Romance Quotes Romantic Quotes Single Quotes Start Quotes Throw Quotes Women Quotes I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior. Whenever I’m doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there’s a director around, I never want anybody’s wife to feel threatened by me.
Niall Ferguson We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It’s a miracle that we get anything right. – Niall Ferguson
Elvis Costello And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music. – Elvis Costello
Claire Messud Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that’s who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn’t right: she was ‘hysterical’ or ‘a little unhinged.’ It didn’t have the same sort of connotation at all. – Claire Messud
Madeleine M Kunin Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman’s insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups. – Madeleine M Kunin
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