I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
BETTE MIDLERI’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
BETTE MIDLERWhen you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
BETTE MIDLERThe outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
BETTE MIDLERMy mother would only let us go to the musicals.
BETTE MIDLERThe inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
BETTE MIDLERWithout passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
BETTE MIDLERThrough 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 MIDLERhen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
BETTE MIDLERA lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
BETTE MIDLERI 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 MIDLERIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
BETTE MIDLERI’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
BETTE MIDLERYou have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
BETTE MIDLERA lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
BETTE MIDLERFrom 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
BETTE MIDLERThe [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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