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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

I hate it when people do not recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men is work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men is writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they are also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I am all about representation.

There is probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it is really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they are all trying to murder each other.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

A woman experience is different from a man in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

I do like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it is a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you are not playing yourself.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

I need more raw experience. I have read and watched a lot of things, but I have not done a lot of things.

An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there is no question women are paid less. Women do not ask.

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that Does not occur when we are on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.