"Stand up against the wall!" That's what everybody gets offered, especially women. When women started appearing on TV … - Debra Winger

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The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep. . ıs the struggle of lıfe.

Debra Winger

"Stand up against the wall!" That's what everybody gets offered, especially women. When women started appearing on TV again in something other than the girl or the mother role it was all, "Get up against the wall," or, "The skin underneath her fingernail would tell me that she," you know, forensic stuff. Oh, God gross. Now, they're hunting terrorists.

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