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"I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them."
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"Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women."
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"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await."
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"I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us."
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"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
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"Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth"
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"John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do."
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"The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately."
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"I am struck by how many leading women... today started as Girl Scouts. It is an organization that obviously develops strong women leaders."
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"And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep."
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"Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow."
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"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."
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"Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty."
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"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself."
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"You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you."
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"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature."
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"We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy."
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"I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters."
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"Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because it was. Being a woman seemed vulnerable and sad. Even the strong women I knew - and they were all strong - had earned their strength through enduring huge disappointments and tremendous struggles."
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