“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Nice but irrelevant, since Nureyev didn't care for women, oh, and he's dead -- far too young -- because he decided to pretend HIV didn't exist. Hubris, and a great sized penis, can't protect one from everything.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké