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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.

Bette Midler

As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Age Diminish Feelings
If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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Flag Passionate Running
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
I 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.
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Thinking Two War
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Anything Clothes Feels Right
I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
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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Snow Spring Winter
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Let Mother Musical
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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Nature Love Spite
Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Ideas Song Voice
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Cigarettes Cool Smoking
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Daughter Grandchildren Young
I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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Garbage Good Lot People Saw Way
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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Done Looks Mountain
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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Happy Picks Ukulele

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.

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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.

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