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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Barbra Streisand

I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
BARBRA STREISAND

Everything Know Learn Sure Want
The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
BARBRA STREISAND

Choices Health Winning
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISAND

Head Men World
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gorgeous Host Person Stranger
I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gross Kind Money Talk
Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
BARBRA STREISAND

Brave Late Subjects
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Myself Talking Work
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISAND

Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
BARBRA STREISAND

Bias Country Humane Ideas Liberal Media
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Name Thinking
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
BARBRA STREISAND

Given Self Self Esteem
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISAND

Essential Essentially Music
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Mean Together
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
BARBRA STREISAND

Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
BARBRA STREISAND

Earth Humans Love
What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Drama Honesty Thinking

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