Gypsy Rose Lee - Gypsy (1962)

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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.

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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.

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