There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.
Siouxsie Sioux
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MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a h... MARGARET MITCHELL On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfact... CRAIG GROESCHEL There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of ... COREY TAYLOR Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there wa... ALLAN MELTZER There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there wa... ALLAN H. MELTZER There was a similar effect after the '70s oil shocks, but in recent decades we've gone back to gas g... JASON DAVIDSON The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani... SUSAN HUBBARD There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion -... PATRICK WILSON For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly w... AVA DUVERNAY Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Why be an ostrich? MARGARET MITCHELL This is the South Park generation. The conservative activism is fun, and it rings with the students ... MATT SINGER It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart ar... KAREN MARIE MONING There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's... MADELEINE M. KUNIN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL There are some fabulous treasures of photos of me during the early days of my career; there are thes... RITA MORENO 'Mrs Funnybones' is based and structured around my columns, and it's about how a modern ... TWINKLE KHANNA It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator.... ANGELA CARTER There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one ... DONALD DAVIDSON She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins C.S. LEWIS Every time you see a black romance, it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility ... BERNIE MAC Of course, this was a good farming area back in the '50s, '60s and '70s. There were about 25 farm eq... GERRY GERLACH Search deep and wide, from all sphere of known and unknown cosmos, You will find many things that ha... OLUSEYI AKINBAMI Christianity is the most efficacious way of life in the world SUNDAY ADELAJA I can summarize my thoughts now by simply saying each must find his or her own Way because "the way"... ROBERT ANTON WILSON This will be a lot from the '60s, with a little from the late '50s and early '70s. It will have the ... DAVID JOHNSON You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. The... GINGER ROGERS The roof is completely gone and there are some floors that are collapsing. ELISE ARMACOST These people are wonderful. They've gone completely out of their way to help us get us out of there ... BRIAN BROWN That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left. R.J. SCOTT Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've d... VICKY MCCLURE I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare... MARGARET MITCHELL Brightness...I believe you stray into sarcasm." "Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it... BRANDON SANDERSON There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don... HAILEE STEINFELD They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousn... JOHN STEINBECK There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are workin... YAMI GAUTAM Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smar... JAKE WEBER There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out t... TYGA The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. It's way, way early. There are so many other issues out there right now. JAY ROBERSON I always say the late 60s, early 70s in American education were really exciting times to teach. The ... REYNOLDS PRICE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female charac... RYAN GOSLING Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a coup... BARRY DILLER May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Even during the major avant-garde period of jazz in the late '60s and early '70s, the songs usually ... HERBIE HANCOCK I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib... ROALD DAHL Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.” MICHEL FABER She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ... ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo... KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all th... FRANK BLACK The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the r... DAVID BECKHAM It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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