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Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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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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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two that's the meaning of subtraction.
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Men are my life, diamonds are my career.
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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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A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
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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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Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love--that's not so bad either.
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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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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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The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood.
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I’ve been things and I've seen places.
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all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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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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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you
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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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