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All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.
- Constance Wu
Once you label me you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I did not yet know that my lack of enjoyment - my distaste, my suffering even - would be considered normal and even desirable by my husband. He was one of those men who felt that if a woman did not experience sexual pleasure this was all to the good, because then she would not be liable to wander off seeking it elsewhere.
- Margaret Atwood
He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old crone.
- Margaret Atwood
He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman
- Margaret Atwood
Men don't like to think about makeup, they like to think everything about you is genuine. Unless of course they want to think you're a slut and everything about you is fake.
- Margaret Atwood
You don't teach boys to be charming. It makes people think they are devious.
- Margaret Atwood
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.
- Sonia Sotomayor
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I guess I just do being a man different than some.
- Ezra Furman
Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know," said Mr. Brooke
- George Eliot