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. -Barbra Streisand Strength
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. -Barbra Streisand Strength
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. -Barbra Streisand Gardening
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. -Barbra Streisand Men
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? -Barbra Streisand Change
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? -Barbra Streisand Women
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. -Barbra Streisand Truth
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? -Barbra Streisand Anniversary
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. -Barbra Streisand Women
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to. -Barbra Streisand Money
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. -Barbra Streisand Women
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. -Barbra Streisand Success
I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror. -Barbra Streisand Trust
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. -Barbra Streisand Teacher
