The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: AIDS
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Self-trust, Work, Discovery
Why 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
Topics: Marriage
My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Fame
Men 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
Topics: Commitment
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Eating, Success, Success & Failure
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators—they 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
Topics: Liberalism
I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Personality
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
—Barbra Streisand
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Opportunities, Reality
I go by instinct … I don’t worry about experience.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Instincts
I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won’t do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that’s risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Fear
I have learned about opening the heart, being more understanding, more loving, kinder.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Kindness
The 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
Topics: Audiences
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
—Barbra Streisand
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