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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."

"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."

"I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me."

"When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else."

"Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record."

"If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool."

"Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late."
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