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.
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.
My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
![Bette Midler Quote - [On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/on-princess-anne-such-an-active-outdoorsy-lass-she.jpg)
![Bette Midler Quote - If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/if-they-at-the-audition-dont-like-the-way-you-soun.jpg)
![Bette Midler Quote - All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/all-these-rumors-about-tom-cruise-being-gay-i-dont.jpg)
