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In this war - as in others - I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.


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YANCY BUTLER Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
YANCY BUTLER I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
YANCY BUTLER I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
YANCY BUTLER I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
YANCY BUTLER Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
YANCY BUTLER I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
YANCY BUTLER My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
YANCY BUTLER Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
YANCY BUTLER People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
YANCY BUTLER Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are tell...
YANCY BUTLER My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
YANCY BUTLER I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
YANCY BUTLER I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
YANCY BUTLER I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don'...
JUDITH BUTLER