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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

Bette Midler

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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Book Saws World
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Bombarded Grow Up Ideas
I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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Cadillacs Couple Sex
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.
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Country Cutting Parks
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
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Princess Royalty Spite
I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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Please Singing Thinking
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.
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Dresses Sound Way
I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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Growing Style Up Writing
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Dream Fuzzy
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Cities Sometimes Soul Wake
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Autumn Spring Summer
I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Audience Enough Lucky
I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Low Lows Standards
I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Divinity Quality Way
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Men Plenty Relationship

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

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