Lesley Manville Quotes


Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.


Citations

Kellaway, Kate. "The mother superior." The Observer, 12 Aug. 2007.

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This quotation is a good example of the conflation (confusing) of different issues. West’s is concerned that men are becoming subservient to women. He uses the word “neutering”—men are being behaviorally castrated. There are men who see power as a zero sum game. If one person gains it, someone else must be losing it. Since more and more women are reaching equality and therefore gaining more power over their own and their family life, they reason that somehow the men must be losing their power. In a sense, from the era where men had control of all family money even if earned by the wife, equality has meant less power for men. When men could legally beat (chastise) their wives, they in some sense had more power and some see it as more masculinity. However, most secure men do not feel this way. They do not have to dominate others to feel masculine. Then West refers to Planned Parenthood and Code Pink organizations. The latter is a very left wing women’s’ peace organization that does not deal much with the other issues between men and women. And Planned Parenthood is America’s oldest main line family planning organization. West was talking to a right wing audience and is of that wing himself. They oppose code pink for their war stand; they oppose Planned Parenthood because they support the right of a woman to choose abortion and birth control devices if she wishes. So somehow, peace now, abortion / birth control have been conflated with rights and powers of men and women.


Kern has been censured for her discriminatory and insulting statements made in the legislatures. See {623313} & . {623312} This quotation shows that in a democracy, where legislators represent specific geographic areas, people who are uneducated, racist, homophobic, religiously bigoted and/or foolish can elect a representative who has some bizarre and/or hateful views. There have, in America, always been elected representatives whose views are out of the mainstream and embarrassing to most Americans. However in a free democracy freedom of speech and representation cannot be limited to sensible, constructive, logical or scientifically accurate content. Kern and others like her remind us all where education and public information access may be less than ideal.


Lesley Manville
Lesley Manville
  • Born: March 12, 1956
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Actress

Lesley Ann Manville CBE is an English actress. She is known for her frequent collaborations with director Mike Leigh, with her winning the London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year for the films All or Nothing (2002) and Another Year (2010), and the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for the latter. For her performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's period drama Phantom Thread (2017), she won the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Supporting Actress of the Year and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.