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Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.

— Lucille Ball Love, Lucy (1996)

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Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

Love, Lucy (1996)

My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.

Love, Lucy (1996)

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

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