My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
BETTE MIDLERHere I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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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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Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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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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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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It 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!
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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