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  • I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest. -- Michael Lindsay-Hogg
  • But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did. -- Courtney Love
  • I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time. -- Berenice Bejo
  • My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation. -- Erica Jong
  • From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life. -- Dirk Benedict
  • Gloria Steinem's marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of ageing feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career woman and callously trashed stay-at-home moms. -- Camille Paglia
  • I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson. -- Amanda Donohoe
  • When I was a boy I remember the women, how they dressed, how they behaved, what was important to them at the time. Like Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat. -- Manolo Blahnik
  • I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that. -- Megyn Kelly
  • The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss). -- Kate Atkinson
  • It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet. -- Jimmy Connors
  • If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. -- Stephen Jay Gould
  • Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi! -- Gloria Trevi
  • Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing. -- Gloria Estefan
  • Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name? -- Mr. T
  • Was it like this? (Jesse) (Jesse made an inhuman ghost noise.) That sounds like Darth Vader choking on a chicken bone. (Gloria) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem's perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic. -- Amber Heard
  • Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgement,' Gloria had said. 'It's the sum of all your judgements that counts. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste. -- Rachel Kushner
  • In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off. -- Elliott Abrams
  • Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational. -- Dolores Huerta
  • When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson. -- Amanda Donohoe
  • The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me. -- Camille Paglia
  • She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!) -- Billie Joe Armstrong
  • I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s. -- Amber Heard
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  • Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?â? â??Mmmm-hmmm,â? said Gloria. She closed her eyes. â??I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart. -- Kate DiCamillo
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  • I'm the luckiest women because I do get to spend a lot of time with Gloria Steinem , and not necessarily talking about the show [ HBO's Ms.] - but talking whatever she's working on, and going to events with her. -- Marisa Tomei
  • Probably she was right 'i love her, I'm honest with my feelings' these are my problems not her.' Xavier left this note on the napkin with a pen he was offered to comment in suggestion book at Gloria Jeans. -- M.H. Rakib
  • My dogs have never been good at things like "sit," "stay," or even "come." I think that we've given the tourists a few laughs, especially when the dogs hit the end of their leashes hard enough to drag Gloria down the street. -- James Stewart
  • Don't give anybody up. . . or leave anybody out. . . . There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help."--Spoken by Jack to Gloria -- Eudora Welty
  • My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. -- Camille Paglia
  • If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.] -- Martial
  • The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.] -- Sallust
  • The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.] -- Sallust
  • The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind. [Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.] -- Sallust
  • I...understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it! -- Jennifer Aniston
  • It was really fun and intimate in a way. Working with George Miller is exquisite. Gloria is different from anything I've ever played before. The first time I saw the characters in the studio I remember thinking that Mumble looked just like Elijah, with such a cute and endearing face. I don't think Gloria looks that much like me. -- Brittany Murphy
  • I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14 and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though. Designer jeans were really popular - Sasson, Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Jordache. Once I started modeling, I began to learn about these things, and magazines helped me to understand who was who. -- Christy Turlington
  • Gloria, Gloria! they cry, for their song embraces all that the Lord has begun this day: Glory to God in the highest of heavens! And peace to the people with whom he is pleased! And who are these people? With whom does the good Lord choose to take his pleasure? The shepherds. The plain and nameless--whose every name the Lord knows well. You. And me. -- Walter Wangerin
  • So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.') -- Thomas a Kempis
  • Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world. -- Diana Gabaldon
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