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.
SOPHIA LORENA woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.
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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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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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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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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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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.
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Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.
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I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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