A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
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I can't do the Garbo or Dietrich thing.Norma Shearer
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
Norma Shearer
Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!
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I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
Norma Shearer
An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
Norma Shearer
I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.
Norma Shearer
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