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I never quite understood it — this sex symbol.... That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
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I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me — and that I've made of myself — as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.
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If I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some of the other things they've got symbols for today.
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That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Dudley Warner
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Born:
June 1, 1926
Died:
August 5, 1962
(aged 36)
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