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. – Barbra Streisand
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? – Barbra Streisand
My biggest nightmare is Im driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: Please help me. And the people say: Hey, you look like… And Im dying while theyre wondering whether Im Barbra Streisand. – Barbra Streisand
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasnt like me at all. – Barbra Streisand
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence. – Henry Fuseli