Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
I was in a movie called 'Before & After' with Meryl Streep. I was edited out of the movie, but no one told me. I think I was 18 or 19 years old. I sat across from her and asked her every question about acting. I completely embarrassed myself.
Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.
I will be unhappy if RDA ducks me. I will be very unhappy.
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
Success cannot be advertised: failure cannot be explained. In the work of intelligence, heroes are undecorated and unsung, often even among their own fraternity.
In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously.
I've never gotten enough credit!
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.
It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.
I haven't got the credit I deserved sometimes, and some of it's my fault.
We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there are some who are teachers indeed.
A lot of guys don't get their recognition, all the good men out there.
If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.
I'm under-appreciated, of course.
My experience - I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for something, but I've never had an experience that made me feel any less than.
Being a fringe player is not the role I want.
On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions.
I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.
People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international acclaim.
