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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
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Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
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Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.
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More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.
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Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.
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I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
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When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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