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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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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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Never ask a man where he has been.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
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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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Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.
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I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.
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When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
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Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
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I'm a good woman for a bad man.
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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood.
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Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love--that's not so bad either.
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Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.
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Men are my life, diamonds are my career.
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Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said I do, and I also wash and iron them. I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign.
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