If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
BETTE MIDLERWe’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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