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March 29, 2013 By Meg Waite Clayton

8 Great Quotes from the Ever-Spunky Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters broke the glass so many times in her career that she must have a damn solid head. She has said that when she started in broadcasting, she would have to wait until her male colleagues had their say before wading in herself. And speaking of wading, she once modeled a swimsuit, subbing in for a no-show model. I suppose her retirement is well-deserved, but she will be missed! Some of my favorite quotes from this amazingly spunky trailblazer, whom I so admire:
“Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.”
“Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.”
“The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it’s also full of fourth-rate readers.”
“If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.”
“Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.”
“To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.”
“I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.”
“I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.”
– Meg
Edit: one bonus quote, because I can’t resist:
“One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.”

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Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com

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