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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

"Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime."

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it."


"I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him."


"Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself."


"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."


"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office."


"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."


"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part."
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