Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
MARIA CALLASI was always too mature for my age – and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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It’s a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven’t.
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I was always too mature for my age – and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?
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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.
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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.
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On stage, I am in the dark.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
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