The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
BETTE MIDLERhen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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