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I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.

Mary J. Blige

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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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I’ve done well, I’ve been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It’s the music business. You are a business. That’s what they do. So you’ve got to protect yourself.
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There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
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If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
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In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.
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I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.
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I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
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I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
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You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
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There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.
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I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.
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When I was five years old I was molested and just, you know. I remember feeling, literally right before it happened, I just could not believe that this person was going to do this to me. That thing followed me all my life. The shame of thinking my molestation was my fault - it led me to believe I wasn't worth anything.
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It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
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Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.
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As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.
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There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.
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I do consider myself part of black history.
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Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.
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Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God.
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It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
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I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
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