My Little Boudoir

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“I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.” – Lena Horne

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“I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become.
I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.” – Lena Horne

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“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.” – Lena Horne

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“You have to be taught to be second class;
you’re not born that way.” – Lena Horne

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“Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.”
-Raquel Welch

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“We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk,
but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.”
-Raquel Welch

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“I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school.
So, I didn’t bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can’t buy love.”
-Raquel Welch

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“I couldn’t stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch – understand?”
-Raquel Welch

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(Don’t you just love those boudoir slippers? Click here to see more.)

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“No one can figure out your worth but you.”
- Pearl Bailey

“Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.”
- Pearl Bailey

“I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes.
I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.”
- Pearl Bailey

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“I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.”
- Ava Gardner

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