01UndatedArt 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.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
02UndatedWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
03UndatedMen are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
04Undated. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
05UndatedI 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?Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
08UndatedI am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
09UndatedSuccess to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
10UndatedWhy am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
11UndatedI must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
12UndatedTo have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
13UndatedWhat is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
14UndatedWe have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
15UndatedWhy is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
16UndatedA man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
17UndatedWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
18UndatedThe audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
19UndatedEighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
21UndatedI've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
22UndatedI love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
23UndatedI've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
24UndatedWhat does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.Barbra Streisand / quote ↗
