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The speaker says she admires women while also seeing them as capable of being threatening and highly competitive. She adds that she has personally stopped competing and no longer wants to live that way.
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Originally said in English.
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About Diana Rigg
English actress
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg was an English actress of stage and screen. Born in 1938 and active from the 1950s onward, she was known for work that moved between theatre, television, and film, and for becoming widely recognized through her screen roles. Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in The Caucasian Chalk Circle and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959. She became a sex symbol as Emma Peel in The Avengers from 1965 to 1968, played James Bond’s wife in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1969, and made her Broadway debut in Abelard & Heloise in 1971.
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