“I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.”

—  Barbara Stanwyck

Quoted in Gary A. Yoggy, Back in the saddle: essays on Western film and television actors (1998), Page 122 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pLbMzGDhTOIC&pg=PA122&dq=%22%22tough+old+broad+from+Brooklyn%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=43MyT7SXD6Lc4QTqxMCEBQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22%22tough%20old%20broad%20from%20Brooklyn%22%22&f=false

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