"Don't I look fabulous? I'm a triumph of science and fiction."The Divine Miss M is seventy years old today.
"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."
"I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite."
"I have my standards. They're low, but I have them."
"Trust your talent. You don't have to make a whore of yourself to get ahead. You really don't."
"Get the trash off the street and back on the stage where it belongs."
"Underneath all this drag, I'm really a librarian, you know."
"Thank God for the gays. I don't know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me."
"I'm working my way toward divinity."
"Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!"
We are unworthy...
Bette Midler (born 1st December 1945)
Previous tributes to Miss Midler here, here, and of course, several times here...
You have great taste honey! I absolutely adore her and that first picture is amazing. Elegant but fun. She is approaching saint status.
ReplyDeleteShe joined the Pantheon of Saints many moons ago - our own dear Dolores Delargo Towers is even named in tribute... Jx
Delete70! It doesn't seem possible.
ReplyDeleteIt genuinely doesn't... Jx
Delete"Underneath all this drag, I'm really a librarian, you know."...
ReplyDeleteI just KNOW you've been known to say the same.
On many. many occasions, dear... Jx
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