"“I’m not particularly intellectual, the way I approach things. I’m a completely physically actor; I think physically and I let my body lead me to the emotions.”[https://variety.com/2020/tv/features/sophie-okonedo-ratched-criminal-uk-psychology-1234775958/ ]"

"“I use all sorts of sources — but I always go back to the script. And then I just let the thing live in my body a bit. So when I’m on set I’m not thinking in any linear way about what I’m doing: I just do it.”"

"!!Snatch my husband anyhow; I will correct you by sending you to God knows where!!"

"In writing this book, I want everyone in American to know her story as well as they know Eleanor’s or the stories of any of the founding fathers. Mary McLeod Bethune was an incredible woman."

"I’m so fearful. When Ron DeSantis says he doesn’t want white children to feel bad about history, what he’s saying is that he doesn’t care if Black children feel bad. We need to lift our voices. Writing as activism – I think that’s what we’re doing here."

"I have never snatched another woman’s husband"

"You can’t be living in evil, yet you come out everyday to profess your love for God…thanking him over something he has no hand in. Be very careful, God is not mocked"""

"You can’t be living in evil, yet you come out everyday to profess your love for God"

"!!A woman has no right to return the bride price of a man; rather it is the man who moves to the woman’s hometown with his kinsmen to ask for the return of the bride price, the same way he went to pay initially!!"

""MANY DON’T KNOW TUNDE & I HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 24 YRS""

""We’ll start off with some singles. It would eventually culminate into an album.""

""One of the first things that connected us was that we were both orphans’""

""Almost 15 years ago, I lost my immediate kid brother.""

""Going Through My Husband’s Phone Is Not Necessary"""

"The industry has been going through a phase which is for good. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I know that at the end of this whole restructuring, everything will be fine"

"I did not choose acting. I was a trained journalist; but out of adventure I am where I am today."

"No. I will never act nude; no matter the huge amount of money I am offered."

"No one has the right today to set conditions for Ukraine, that we ought to surrender part of our territory in exchange for the withdrawal from our country of someone carrying around dirty weapons."

"No one can tell us from the outside, especially the aggressor country, how we should build our lives, how we should form our constitution, how we should build the government of our country and the management of our army."

"I want to see results; I have few minutes to waste."

"I feel like the luckiest woman in the world when I am with my family. But lately this happens so rarely that I more often feel like a well-tuned machine that makes decisions and enforces them. I spend very little time on that which you call a personal life."

"I can't cry. It's my character."

"Today everyone is fighting for private interests."

"You know I dream of this unique moment when you get some sort of a bonus for defending your country's interests."

"I want people who follow politics to understand that in politics everything is structured. Your political opponent hires experts, analysts, those people who shed a negative light on the other side."

"And power, as always, is seen as a trampoline to do big business, to straddle sources of finance."

"The other aspect of the conflict is, and here you are absolutely right, that we have people in power who have different goals despite being part of the same team. Some of them have come to power with very clear business interests."

"This is a great battle for our territory and our freedom. It’s a historic chance for the free world to kill this evil."

"I do not climb to put myself in real danger like that. I climb because it is a lifestyle. It is fun. If I had to risk my life every time I climb, I would not think that would be fun"

"So I am scared, pumped, not sure what to do. If that happens, I take a very quick pause, a sort of a reset button which I call a mental shift. I stop. I make a quick assessment."

"The more you prepare before you start, the more you will be relaxed. You have to recognise that you might be scared, you might be stuck, not knowing what to do. You might feel uncomfortable. You might get distracted by something in the audience. Mostly, I just accept that if that happens I am not going to try to resist it."

"I just went ahead and followed what was true for me because it was sincere. I figured out that people were wrong judging me. The inner authentic choice I made was to follow my passion in this way. Very early on, I realised that I should not assume that the judgments, culture, or even traditions are right for me."

"It is who I am. Who I have always been. I have embraced this attitude as a young girl. They used to call me a tomboy when I was small. I thought that label was kind of insulting because it was taking away the fact that I was a girl and a woman. Calling girls a tomboy makes it seem that you are less of a woman just because you have athletic skills."

"Concentration is the biggest thing I learned through my career. You can’t succeed if you are not focused. Climbing taught me that. You never let it go. Concentration in each instant, each minute, each second."

"And things get to me sometimes, because like anyone else I, too, feel disillusioned at times. And then there are the insults... But I can endure all these things if there is a goal that is much higher than engaging in some kind of personal vendettas. Even exhaustion I can endure."

"Every person throughout his or her life tries to pursue some kind of ideal. Everybody sees different ideals. Some want to make big money. Others want to make a career in science hoping to make a unique discovery for mankind."

"Similarly, I don’t think the desire for leadership is based in biology. Do we really believe men are natural leaders and women are not?"

"There’s this assumption that women can’t and men can. My goal is to change that conversation."

"The media rarely depict working women with children as happy and adjusted and comfortable with themselves."

"I’m not recommending that if you want to get to the top, you should break out the tissues. But we’re human, and it’s important to broaden the kinds of behaviors that are acceptable at work."

"Crying at work is not a best practice."

"But the struggles I write about are the ones all women face: the struggle to believe in yourself, to not feel guilty, to get enough sleep, to believe that you can be both a good professional and a good parent."

"We expect men to have leadership qualities, to be assertive and competent, to speak out. We expect women to have communal qualities, to be givers and sharers, to pursue the common good."

"The data show that success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. Which means that as women get more successful, they are liked less—both by men and by other women. That’s because we want people to conform to our stereotypes."

"We need to recognize that we can’t do it all, that we face trade-offs every single minute of the day. We have to stop beating ourselves up for not doing everything perfectly."

"If we want to balance out leadership roles in the workplace, we have to balance out responsibilities in the home."

"One of my goals is to make gender an open and honest topic in the workplace."

"No one talks about gender in the workplace, because if you say the words "I am a woman," the other person is likely to hear "I want special treatment" or "I’m going to sue you.""

"At the same time, the world still isn’t very welcoming or respectful toward full-time at-home dads."