If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
BETTE MIDLERIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
BETTE MIDLERPeople have an obligation to live up to their potential.
BETTE MIDLERI can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
BETTE MIDLERI’m working my way toward divinity.
BETTE MIDLERMarriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
BETTE MIDLERWhile 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.
BETTE MIDLERI fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
BETTE MIDLERI wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
BETTE MIDLERIt is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
BETTE MIDLERFrom a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
BETTE MIDLERMost people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
BETTE MIDLEROne of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
BETTE MIDLERWhen it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
BETTE MIDLERA lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
BETTE MIDLERI think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
BETTE MIDLERA lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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