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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

— Frances McDormand The New York Times interview (2017)

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It is impossible to maintain one's composure in this situation.

We five women were fortunate to have the choice, not just the opportunity but the choice, to play such rich, complex female characters.

I encourage writers and directors to keep these really interesting female roles coming — and while you're at it you can throw in a few for the men as well.

We are a bunch of hooligans and anarchists but we do clean up nice.

No "trending". It changes now, and I think the inclusion rider will have something to do with that.

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Mao Zedong

Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state.

Benito Mussolini

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)

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