Marlene Dietrich

• "Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.“
• "Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.“
• "When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.“
• "Grumbling is the death of love.“
• "Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.“
• "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.“
• "There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.“
• "A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.“
• "I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.“
• "I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.“
• "There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.“
• "I never enjoyed working in a film.“
• "To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.“
• "Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.“
• "To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.“

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