Olympia Dukakis Quotes

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• Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front…
• Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!
• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a…
• What you don't know about women is alot.
• When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children…
• You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you,…
• I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot…
• Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's…
• When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and…
• Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're…
• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
• Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.
• My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
• I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
• I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that,…
• I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of…
• Winning is everything in Hollywood.
• So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their…
• I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
• I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

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