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.
BETTE MIDLERI want it all – and I would like it delivered.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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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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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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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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