“Acting, saved my life.” A number of comments by women intrigue me about how they – and those of us of the male persuasion as well – deal with anger, frustrations, rage, anxiety and other often disrupting emotions. The passionate CEO & President of La Negrita Productions, Sandra Duque [photo] said in an interview, “My [...]
Kay Redfield Jamison Psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison has said of her own experience with bipolar disorder: “When you’re high it’s tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones.” Other accomplished women who have a history of unipolar depression or bipolar [...]
Queen Latifah In her bio Ladies First : Revelations of a Strong Woman, Queen Latifah writes that she wants people “to see me as someone who is proud and comfortable with who I am…. Be secure in yourself. You don’t need me – or any other public person, for that matter – to validate you.” [...]
Peer relationships are rare In a scene in the tv series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” [photo] forensic scientist Catherine Willows [Marg Helgenberger] says to Gil Grissom (William L. Petersen) in a deeply ironic tone: “You’re right, you know. I should be just like you. Alone in my hermetically sealed condo, watching Discovery on the big [...]
Simone Simmons was a friend and confidante of Princess Diana, and says in her new bio Diana: The Last Word that Diana “was one of the most insecure people I had ever met. … On the surface, of course, she appeared to have everything going for her. But, like a number of other well-known and [...]
Filmmaker Vanessa Parise commented on some of the issues that make the field so challenging for women: “I’ve certainly experienced that it’s difficult as a woman director to be able to star in your own movies, whereas there are so many men who do that… When we were getting the financing, there were some companies [...]
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