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There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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Mary Jane West
Jane West
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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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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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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
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Men are my life, diamonds are my career.
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I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself
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A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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I'm a good woman for a bad man.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
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Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.
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Flattery will get you everywhere.
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