Quotes by Barbra Streisand

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?

A 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.

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 is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

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.

I can take any truth just don’t lie to me.

I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.