Quote of the Day: Dame Helen Mirren

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MOVIE PHOTO: THE MOSQUITO COAST, 1986-HELEN MIRREN

 'What p***es' me off is the disparity between the appreciation of women's expertise….. just think of making a shirt. I sew. I love to make my own clothes, I do it badly, … but I love the process. But it's very difficult…to turn a collar, to put in a placket, to put in a zip… it takes real expertise and …….why is it that the incredible, agile, expertise of women is so undervalued? I go to thrift stores, and I buy beautifully embroidered doilies….I have no use for them but I love the work, the work is so beautiful, and it's so undervalued. Whereas you see…a piece of carpentry made by a man, beautiful, not saying it's not, it's absolutely beautiful, but it's much more highly valued than that incredibly intricate beautiful work of embroidery, or crocheting. It just annoys me that over centuries women's incredible expertise and artistry and artisanal work is so underappreciated.' (@bbcwomanshour)

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