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Ruth Gordon: So easy to...

Ruth Gordon: So easy to...

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

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Jean Harlow: I'm going to...

Jean Harlow: I'm going to...

I'm going to be a lady if it kills me.

Source: In Dinner at Eight, 1933.
-- Jean...

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Geena Davis: Something's like crossed...

Geena Davis: Something's like crossed...

Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.

Source:...

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Loretta Swit: I just can't...

Loretta Swit: I just can't...

I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with...

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Mrs Patrick Campbell: It doesn't matter...

Mrs Patrick Campbell: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the...

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Pearl Bailey: We look into...

Pearl Bailey: We look into...

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us -- not our effects on...

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Mary Antin: Such creatures of...

Mary Antin: Such creatures of...

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create...

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Jeane Kirkpatrick: All of us...

Jeane Kirkpatrick: All of us...

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: It helped her...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: It helped her...

It helped her [Caroline] learn that something you create yourself is the best kind of...

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Josephine Baker: Beautiful? It's all...

Josephine Baker: Beautiful? It's all...

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest . . . beautiful, no. Amusing,...

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Alice Childress: I continue to...

Alice Childress: I continue to...

I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale...

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Patti Smith: Rock n' roll...

Patti Smith: Rock n' roll...

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by...

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Ellen Terry: No amount of...

Ellen Terry: No amount of...

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

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Louise Brooks: There is no...

Louise Brooks: There is no...

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film...

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Sharon Stone: A lot of...

Sharon Stone: A lot of...

A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous...

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Brigitte Bardot: Women get more...

Brigitte Bardot: Women get more...

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Source: In The...

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Mae West: I wrote the...

Mae West: I wrote the...

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I've tried several...

Tallulah Bankhead: I've tried several...

I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff...

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Sandra Bernhard: Love is the...

Sandra Bernhard: Love is the...

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Source: In Words of...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: God, I can...

Edna St Vincent Millay: God, I can...

God, I can push the grass apart
And lay my finger on Thy heart!


Source: In The...

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