In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

—Marlene Dietrich

About Marlene Dietrich

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Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (, German: [maʁˈleːnə ˈdiːtʁɪç] ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1920s Berlin, she performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola Lola in Josef von...

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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

—Marlene Dietrich

I am at heart a gentleman.

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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

—Marlene Dietrich

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

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A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

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Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me?

—Jeff Melvoin

It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

—Betty Friedan

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