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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?


Barbara Streisand

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BARBRA STREISAND Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISAND The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman ...
G.K. CHESTERTON The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman ...
G. K. CHESTERTON She had the voice of an angel, kind of a cross between Barbara Streisand and Karen Carpenter. She co...
BARBARA CHRISTIAN Why does a woman want equality with men when she is already much better than a man? Is she not a mot...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Lucy paints portraits of Barbara Streisand.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It's acceptable for a woman to say to man that she wants to get married to him.
LORRIN L. LEE I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
COURTNEY LOVE If a man is happily married why would he look for another woman?
GIANNI PALADINI A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts t...
LYSANDER SPOONER Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and no...
TORI AMOS A woman in love is her most lovely. A relationship end does not change that unless she lets it.
SUZETTE R. HINTON Barbra Streisand has always been an inspiration for me. I admire Jennifer Lopez because she's be...
LAUREN LONDON Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and no...
TORI AMOS No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice...
H. L. MENCKEN No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice...
H.L. MENCKEN Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only beca...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before
JANE AUSTEN No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nic...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR Reason, Why a Woman is called 'WOMAN'... ? B'coz, She can wooo MAN....
ASHISH SOPHAT I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the profession...
CHARLES CUMMING I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
COURTNEY LOVE A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
ANNA HELD If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. -Barbara Walters.
BARBARA WALTERS God's image is the married couple, a man and woman, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. ...
POPE FRANCIS When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
DAME EDITH EVANS When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
DAME EDITH EVANS Married love between a man & woman, man & man and woman & woman is an oaths based on unconditional l...
EDWARD SQUIRE Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her -- when, ni...
HELEN ROWLAND Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nin...
HELEN ROWLAND I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That'...
PAUL MOONEY As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied
OSCAR WILDE The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wan...
AL GOLDSTEIN The world believes ‘asakti’ [infatuation, attraction of atoms] to be love and (then) become conf...
DADA BHAGWAN She has shown that at 36, it is not too late for a Japanese woman to get married and have a family,
MAKOTO WATANABE Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
VICTORIA WOODHULL If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be dif...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be dif...
JOHANN VON GOETHE As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
OSCAR WILDE When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
EDITH EVANS Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE The best investment a woman can make is to get married to a wealthy man and not have a career at all...
SANDRA DAVIS A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.
SOL WACHTLER We thought of her with Barbra Streisand, Barbara Boxer, Rob Reiner, Charles Schumer, even. Now I see...
CHRIS MATTHEWS In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a wom...
HONORE DE BALZAC A young woman married to an old man must behave like an old woman.
VIKRANT PARSAI The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil. but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Dammit, it's just like a man to put a rich, fattening meal in front of a woman and get offended when...
JENNIFER PROBST I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. S...
DANNY BONADUCE Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young ...
LYNNE AMBROSINI An independent woman does not need a man who will spoil her with the finest jewels. All that she nee...
NIGUEL CROWIE I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motiv...
AMY GRANT Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work o...
A.W. TOZER The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C. After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip in...
MARY BALOGH A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
JANE AUSTEN A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.
HELEN ROWLAND I've been married for 34 years, and I intend to stay married to that woman as long as she'll have me...
GARY CONDIT For a woman to succeed in a man's world, she needs to think,read & work like a man.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.
JOHN GRISHAM That may be. But to decide that I was never going to live as a proper woman was not your choice to m...
JESSIE BURTON Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed...
ELIZABETH STROUT I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'l...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN A woman does not become whole until she has a baby.
CHRIS MENTILLO A woman does not become whole, until she has a baby.
CHRIS MENTILLO What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
RITA MAE BROWN I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love,...
JILL SCOTT A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows...
OSCAR WILDE You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she's brilliant. She's a bril...
JERRY LEWIS What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better?
'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE I have never worked for or with a man or a woman who puts their heart and soul into what she does li...
KAREN THOMAS The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of ...
ANAIS NIN There can be nothing worse for a man when he realize that he married the wrong woman.
VIKRANT PARSAI A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together.
ADRIENNE RICH I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because I...
RICHARD SIMMONS I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that...
UMBERTO ECO What's exciting is, like, Batman Begins basically really did a wonderful job explaining exactly why ...
JOSS WHEDON I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his.
ELSA PERETTI A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
ISABEL ALLENDE A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the...
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BARBARA SHER Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t...
BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ...
BARBARA OLSON