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Quote by Sophie Tucker
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
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The quote presents a blunt, age-based checklist of what it says a girl needs at different stages of life: “good parents,” then “good looks,” then “a good personality,” and finally “good cash.” Its humor comes from reducing life’s changing demands to one advantage at a time, while also exposing a narrow, transactional view of women.
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- Some of These Days: The Autobiography of Sophie Tucker
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