Jane Anderson Quotes on Woman (3 Quotes)

In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, Buy this brand-new stove', Buy the fridge' Make Jell-O', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.

The two other parts Moore played from the '50s are so different from Evelyn Ryan. The character she played in The Hours was a woman who fled the oppression of her home. Evelyn Ryan stayed. She chose to brave it out, because she was determined to make sure every one of those 10 kids of hers made it out of that house intact. It's heroic.

I think the reason she's done so many of these films is because the '50s is such a rich era for describing the journey of a woman,