Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the… — Olympia Dukakis

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.

Olympia DukakisActress · American · b. 1931

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