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“But I still had to tell myself, Keep looking up. I will tell you, he isnt Superman for nothing.”

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Erica Durance is a Canadian actress born on June 21, 1978. She gained widespread recognition for her role as a judge on the reality TV show 'America's Next Top Model,' and has starred in numerous television series and films. more

“I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.”

“Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or the sense of personal expansion that comes from discovering that we women have a worthy heritage. Along with pride often comes rage – rage that one has been deprived of such a significant knowledge.”

Men Has Beens Grows Difficult Growing Up Imagine Pride Worthy Rage Significant Heritage Discovering Expansion Deprived

Book:The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation

Source: The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation

“Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.”

Hard Done Goal Party Break Building Standing Dinner Shoulders Accomplishment Repeats Wheels Cycles Denied Deprived Dinner Party

Author:Judy Chicago

“Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting doesn't always lead to action. Many of the women had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their own lives, and so, wanting to be an artist (but without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon.”

Want Made Action Wanted Artist Realizing Ability Fantasy Shapes Moon Raised Idle Mold

Book:THROUGH THE FLOWER: My Struggle as A Woman Artist

Source: THROUGH THE FLOWER: My Struggle as A Woman Artist

“With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed.”

Done Changed Males Impulse Professors Disguise Early Work

Author:Judy Chicago

“Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.”

Ifs World Long Enough Faces Women Challenges Silence Morning Bed Foundation Feminist Painter Rising Historic Bricks Humane Captives Captivity Famous Artist

Author:Judy Chicago

“If you don't like something don't do it, and if you're doing something then you better like it. It is as simple as that.”

Ifs Simple Like Something

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“Stand by what you believe in. People who mind won't matter and people who matter won't mind it”

People Mind Believe Matter

Author:Shahrukh Khan

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