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Ma Rainey: My audience wants...

Ma Rainey: My audience wants...

My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the best...

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Phyllis Diller: Women want men,...

Phyllis Diller: Women want men,...

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a...

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Jackie Moms Mabley: Life is like...

Jackie Moms Mabley: Life is like...

Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take...

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Jane Wagner: A sobering thought:...

Jane Wagner: A sobering thought:...

A sobering thought: What if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full...

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Jacqueline Bisset: A mode of...

Jacqueline Bisset: A mode of...

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I fear waking...

Whoopi Goldberg: I fear waking...

I fear waking up one morning and finding out it was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the...

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Marilu Henner: Wherever my career...

Marilu Henner: Wherever my career...

Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that...

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Marilu Henner: After 19 years...

Marilu Henner: After 19 years...

After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets... and a partridge in a...

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Liv Ullmann: Hollywood is loneliness...

Liv Ullmann: Hollywood is loneliness...

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Zora Neale Hurston: I have been...

Zora Neale Hurston: I have been...

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in...

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Jenny Joseph: But maybe I...

Jenny Joseph: But maybe I...

But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When...

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Loretta Swit: It wasn't so...

Loretta Swit: It wasn't so...

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response ... you...

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Jacqueline Bisset: The deeper interior...

Jacqueline Bisset: The deeper interior...

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary.

Source: Interview...

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Grandma Moses: I paint from...

Grandma Moses: I paint from...

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and...

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Martha Graham: Dance is the...

Martha Graham: Dance is the...

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Source: Interview The New York...

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Marie Lloyd: My old man...

Marie Lloyd: My old man...

My old man said, `Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!'
But I dillied and dallied, dallied and...

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Dinah Shore: I earn and...

Dinah Shore: I earn and...

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against --...

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Doris Day: The really frightening...

Doris Day: The really frightening...

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

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Pat Nixon: I would feel...

Pat Nixon: I would feel...

I would feel sorry for her if she did.

Source: On whether she would want her...

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Muriel Rukeyser: The universe is...

Muriel Rukeyser: The universe is...

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Source: The Speed of Darkness.
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