We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.


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To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the pla...
ELEANOR DUSE
Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
ELEANOR BRON
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
What one has to do usually can be done.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You always admire what you really don't understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and...
ELEANOR EARLY
You always admire what you really don't understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even whe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the w...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean somet...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, b...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You must do the thing you think you cannot do
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Whatever come we have to meet it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
ELEANOR BRON
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
ELEANOR POWELL
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be on...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.
ELEANOR MONDALE
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
ELEANOR CLIFT
The giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT