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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.

Bette Midler

It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
BETTE MIDLER

Beats Important Off Pissed
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
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Birth Giving Virgins
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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Art Cancer Light
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Humorous Inspirational New York
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Funny Hilarious Love
There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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Emotional Friends Kind
it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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Annihilation Costume Exactly Gotten
My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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Independent Sibling Teacher
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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Stories Way Years
From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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Distance Men Ocean
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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Pruned Tense Upset
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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Down Market Money
Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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About Enough Thinking
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Planets Sanguine Way
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Cleaning Ideas Superwoman

My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.

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