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Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

— Lucy Lawless

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They either overcompensate for the way they feel and are incredibly sycophantic or incredibly brusque in order to prove they don't think you're superior.

When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

I'm gonna walk off wearing the outfit and I'm going to drive home in it.

What's Buffy got? A wooden stake, some garlic. Xena has a full arsenal of weapons.

Feminists might identify with me because I'm unapologetic in what they think is a male-dominated world … no, I guess, what is a male-dominated world.

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