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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

— Beverly Sills Misattributed

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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

The Quotable Woman (1978)

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Conquering an Enemy Called Average (1996)

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. I'm not about to change now.

Beverly : An Autobiography (1988)

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Men will always be attracted to women with nice soft arms and a fleshy bosom.

TIME Vol. 120 (1982)

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