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 STREISANDWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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What 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.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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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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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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