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Olympia Dukakis
American
Actress
Born:
Jun 20
,
1931
Being
Fear
Me
Myself
Think
Women
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
Olympia Dukakis
Women
Mother
Church
Believe
Carry
Born
About
Something
Absolutely
Sin
Because
Felt
Said
Got
Were
Refused
Children
Baptism
Baptized
Them
Original
Original Sin
You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
Olympia Dukakis
Love
You
Respect
Sex
Partner
Married
Stay
Because
Real
Years
Real Friend
Friend
Regard
Your
Even
Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
Olympia Dukakis
Myself
Be Happy
Happy
Try
To Be Honest
Ourselves
Evolve
Willing
Status
Status Quo
Staying
About
Feel
Most
Real
Quo
Us
Included
Grow
Eager
Honest
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
Olympia Dukakis
Prayer
Mother
Before
Down
Every
Side
Say
Kid
Would
Mary
Kneel
Bed
Greek
Every Night
Night
Sleep
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
Olympia Dukakis
Work
Me
Passion
Lose
Clear
Became
Thankfully
Connection
Compete
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.
Olympia Dukakis
Me
Women
Fear
Sometimes
Thousand
Thousand Years
Silencing
Daughters
Feel
Altered
Within
Were
Years
Imprinted
Front
Oil
Burned
Who
Deep
Four
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
Olympia Dukakis
Husband
More
He
Vengeance
Catholic
Am
Feminist
Than
Actually
I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
Olympia Dukakis
Women
Think
Back
Our
Way
Out
Find
Being
Then
Hard
Socialized
I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
Olympia Dukakis
People
Walk
Few
Live
Think
Way
One-Way
Most
Talk
Another
Because
Truly
Few People
Us
Who
I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.
Olympia Dukakis
Man
Woman
Women
Fear
Country
See
Having
Struggling
Over
Talk
She
Make
Accepted
Being
Different
Being Different
Really
Hard
Groups
Believes
Her
Right
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
Olympia Dukakis
Me
Sometimes
Important
Despair
Claim
Altered
Affected
Truly
Being
Meaningfully
Ever
Things
I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
Olympia Dukakis
Work
Women
Worth
Evolving
Would
Would-Be
Miracle
About
Something
Spiritually
Write
Feel
Like
Most
Because
Doing
Roles
Anyone
Who
Even
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