“AMC [All My Children] launched my career and changed my life. I got married there and had my baby there and made so many close friends. I am so sad that it is going away. It is a part of television history. Pine Valley is a part of America. It breaks my heart. That role taught me how to really be an actress. It introduced me to a man who gave me my daughter. That is something that I am eternally thankful for and will always be.” MenHeartChildrenMadeAmericaCareersRolesBreakChangedTelevisionTaughtBabyMy HeartMarriedDaughterActressesMy ChildrenMy DaughterGoing AwayValleysChanged My LifeClose FriendsMy BabySo SadBreaking My Heart Author:Eva LaRue
“They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are gonna poke and poke and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it. We must be - we must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, "Kill all white babies."” PeopleWantBelieveWarGovernmentWhiteRaceRolesBabyKingsPeacefulLutherPoke Author:Glenn Beck
“Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid notions of heterosexualist roles onto the next generation. [They named] their offspring the non-gender-specific "Baby.” LittlesSelfPoliticalCoursesNextRolesGenerationsBabyMembersNotionSorryGenderNuclearFairyFairy TaleRighteousNext GenerationPolitical CorrectnessOffspringCottagesInstillSelf RighteousNuclear FamiliesMoralismGoldilocks Author:James Finn Garner
“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.” YearsChildrenLittlesMatterReasonPlayMotherTurnsGirlParentBoysRolesFiveFourStyleTvsBabyHusbandClothesDoctorsNo Matter WhatRefusePopsFive YearsSexismDishesWashingDronesFive Year OldsInsistingChildren Playing Author:Stella Chess
“I would say this to my students all the time, it's about 30% you as the teacher and 70% about them. They tend to think that their role is to be the baby bird in a nest and you're going to feed them? They're going to feed themselves, or they're going to starve.” ThinkingRolesTeacherStudentsBabyBirdNests Author:Tim Gunn
“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.” PeopleWayKindCharacterStoriesDesireCultureFightingEffortRolesFireViolenceObjectsBabyPicksGunFemaleDoctorsAbuseSafetyWoodsViolentTortureRejectsHospitalsGuardianExpertiseFemale CharactersSquatNot PrettyDisenfranchisedObjects Of Desire Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“My role is almost a sight-gag. I have to be a woman to sing the lyrics "I am a man" to have it be a joke. I start the lyric in a male-register and a whole coloratura up into a soprano. And other points in the show... like the guy who likes to be treated like a baby and wear a diaper!” MenWholeShowsGuyRolesBabyJokesSightMalesLikesTreatedRegisterDiapersSopranosGags Author:Max von Essen
“As girls are given dollies and pushchairs while little boys are frowned upon for picking them up; while men are 'congratulated' for occasionally 'babysitting' their own children and women are castigated for daring to combine motherhood and career; while baby changing facilities are provided in women's toilets but rarely in the men's, is it any wonder we tend to take on the roles society stereotypically pushes on us when it comes to caregiving?” MenChildrenLittlesGirlGivenWonderBoysCareersRolesHe ManBabyMotherhoodDaringToiletsFacilityLittle BoysCaregivingBabysitting Author:Laura Bates
“I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.” MadePlayCharacterSchoolNextJesusRolesBabyAngelSatSheepMaryNativityBaby Jesus Author:Nicole Kidman
“A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.” WantPlayCharacterJusticeSecretRolesBabyTrainingCriticsPlanningBlankSlateReplacementsBlank SlatesUnderstudies Author:Chuck Palahniuk