"I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there."
-Martha Plimpton
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"That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.“
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"It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits."
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"I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in."
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"My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine."
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"It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil."
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"My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything."
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
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