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"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."
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"You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting."

"A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight."

"All my six husbands married me for different reasons."

"I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me."

"Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be."

"I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting."
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"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."

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"A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate."

"If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women."

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"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."
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