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The curve is more powerful than the sword.

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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You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
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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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Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
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Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
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I’ve been things and I've seen places.
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I'm a good woman for a bad man.
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Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.
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Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.
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Flattery will get you everywhere.
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Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
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Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.
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I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.
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