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Marlene Dietrich: The weak are...

Marlene Dietrich: The weak are...

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak...

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Marlene Dietrich: Courage and grace...

Marlene Dietrich: Courage and grace...

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

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Phyllis Diller: I buried a...

Phyllis Diller: I buried a...

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

Source: In Woman's Almanac,...

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Phyllis Diller: I've been asked...

Phyllis Diller: I've been asked...

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and...

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Lucille Ball: Love yourself first...

Lucille Ball: Love yourself first...

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in...

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Joan Baez: You don't get...

Joan Baez: You don't get...

You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to...

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Glenda Jackson: Acting provides the...

Glenda Jackson: Acting provides the...

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always...

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Elizabeth Taylor: It is strange......

Elizabeth Taylor: It is strange......

It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for...

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Shelley Winters: Acting is like...

Shelley Winters: Acting is like...

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they're...

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Betty Grable: You're better off...

Betty Grable: You're better off...

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't...

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Francesca Annis: I don't want...

Francesca Annis: I don't want...

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

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Alice Duer Miller: Listening is not...

Alice Duer Miller: Listening is not...

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human...

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I had not...

Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I had not...

I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath your feet
In wistful April...

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I sit and...

Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I sit and...

I sit and sew -- a useless task it seems,
My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams . ....

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Edith Nesbitt: Little brown brother,...

Edith Nesbitt: Little brown brother,...

Little brown brother, oh! lime brown brother,
Are you awake in the dark?


Source:...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: So many gods,...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: So many gods,...

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the...

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Mae West: It's not the...

Mae West: It's not the...

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

Source: In The...

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Katharine Hepburn: I have many...

Katharine Hepburn: I have many...

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if...

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Lauren Bacall: I am not...

Lauren Bacall: I am not...

I am not a has-been. I'm a will be.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Liv Ullmann: The older one...

Liv Ullmann: The older one...

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work...

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