Barbra Streisand

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

"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."

"Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love."

"I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."

"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."

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

"To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good."

"What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other."

"Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?"

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