Sophia Loren
study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see” -Rumi
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Gypsy Rose Lee, one of the most celebrated burlesque dancers in history where at one point was voted the most popular woman in America, outpolling even Eleanor Roosevelt.
“May your bare ass always be shining.” -Eleanor Roosevelt to Gypsy Rose Lee, 1959
“I never use a zipper,” she explains. “A zipper is cheap and vulgar. And suppose one got stuck? I use ordinary straight pins. I used to toss ‘em into the bell of a brass tuba in the band. They would go ping every time i hit the target……… but it was too expensive, the guy wanted union wages.”
