The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
SOPHIA LORENAfter all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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I don’t like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don’t like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it’s a waste of time.
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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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When I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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