"A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face."
"Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect."
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Source: Billie Burke (2015). “With A Feather On My Nose”, p.33, Pickle Partners Publishing
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