By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
I've made some movies that I really loved that nobody saw.
The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.
A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.
Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.
A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.
I think efforts sometimes don't get rewarded.
I feel like on 'Free TC,' you know, I feel like I went hard, and not enough people recognized.
Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
Nobody ever asks me about my lyrics.
In reality, it is the waste collectors, the nurses, and the cleaners whose shoulders are supporting the apex of the pyramid. They are the true mechanism of social solidarity.
I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
Eaten bread is forgotten.
As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.
Men are much more likely to make sure the boss knows they were in the office until midnight. But women tend to avoid seeking that kind of acknowledgement for their work. They just assume that the boss knows - but the boss usually doesn't. I experienced that firsthand.
You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.
There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.
All the attention in the world won't do my dishes.
