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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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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.
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The curve is more powerful than the sword.
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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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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
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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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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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Dating means two things disillusionment or a racing heart.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
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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 he has been.
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It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
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No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.
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Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
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Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
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When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
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