Quotes About Reality

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

I think we're [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.

In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.

... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits

You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine.

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man's potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it.

I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.

There has to be this balance of reality for a woman. I don't want to play women who just serve a purpose for the script.

Women do get drunk, they do get sick and they do get food poisoning. It seems to be a bit of a surprise to people that they are seeing it.

Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are differences between men and women.

There is no unconditional love in the universe.

That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.