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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.

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So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

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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.

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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.

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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

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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!

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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: June 20th, 1931

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