“(Television) Being a woman is as much a state of mind as a state of being. (Sylvia) Right. You stop paying attention, you might turn into a tuna.”
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 167
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“(Sylvia) There’s not enough coffee in the whole world to turn me into a functional human being.”
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