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Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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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'm a good woman for a bad man.
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Never ask a man where he has been.
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I didn't discover curves I only uncovered them.
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It's not what you say, but how you say it!
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I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
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Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.
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Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.
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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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I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.
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The curve is more powerful than the sword.
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Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you
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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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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.
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No gold-digging for me I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.
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I’ve been things and I've seen places.
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