A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
BARBRA STREISANDWhat is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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