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Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

Jacqueline Bisset

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Jacqueline Bisset
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: September 13
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Weybridge
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Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset
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