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It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody. ”
The suffragettes realized the power of getting arrested and going to prison and harassing politicians and making a nuisance of themselves. It got them a lot of attention. What they never did was set out to endanger human life except for sacrificing themselves. ”
If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves. ”
I can walk down the street and have a human experience every day. ”
People in comedy are just gorgeous, just the best human beings. They are naturally interested in other people and in playing something other than themselves. ”
We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that. ”
We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are. ”
When I was 18, I moved out of home. I decided to try to be an actor, so took myself off to slum it with nine humans and a million mice in a red Leytonstone house. ”
Pride and Prejudice' is set in the early 19th century. At that time, women had the legal status of children. A daughter was the property of her father until marriage, when her ownership passed to her husband. ”
That's the thing: when I listen on public transport, my headphones act as a separator - a wired barrier between me and the nearest people. Yet my podcasts drag me through the depths of human nature. ”