Barbra Streisand

"Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains."

"I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience."

"I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?"

". . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative."

"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."

"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?"

"Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth."