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“In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.”

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Marisa Tomei is an American actress renowned for her Oscar-winning performance in 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'. She is celebrated for her exceptional performances in films such as 'Forrest Gump', 'American Beauty', and 'Julie & Julia'. more

“Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.”

“Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I discovered the humanities. I read the plays of Shakespeare voraciously, some novels, such as Pasternack's Dr. Zhivago and Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, and I got into philosophy by reading Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.”

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“Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.”

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“I am a one-trick pony. But I have worked hard at something I would have liked to do even if I weren't paid a penny for it, and made a good living at it. You can't be luckier than that in this life, no matter who you are or what you do.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.”

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Author:Marisa Tomei

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