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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly … very slowly.

Gypsy Rose Lee

I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.

Gypsy Rose Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

Gypsy Rose Lee

God will protect us, [my mother] often said to June and me. "But to make sure," she would add, "carry a heavy club."

Gypsy Rose Lee

Women who marry men they don't love or aren't attracted to, men who are older, unattractive or unlovable, such women cannot validly look down on prostitutes. That is to say, on honest prostitutes.

Gypsy Rose Lee

I used to come home at night full of inspiration, and sit up with a bottle of Scotch. As I wrote, the words seemed wonderful, just too wonderful to be coming from me. Next morning I always found they were terrible and I could never use anything I wrote.

Gypsy Rose Lee

Men aren't attracted to me by my mind. They're attracted by what I don't mind.

Gypsy Rose Lee

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

Gypsy Rose Lee

Gypsy Rose Lee

Gypsy Rose Lee

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Born: January 8, 1911

Died: April 26, 1970 (aged 59)

Bio: Gypsy Rose Lee was an American burlesque entertainer famous for her striptease act. She was also an actress, author, and playwright whose 1957 memoir was made into the stage musical and film Gypsy.

Known for:

Gypsy (1962)
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Lady of Burlesque (1943)
Screaming Mimi (1958)
The Stripper (1963)

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