“Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddamn rules.”

— Maria Callas

On her controversial personality and performance, quoted in Wild Women Talk Back : Audacious Advice for the Bedroom, Boardroom, and Beyond (2004) by Autumn Stephens, p. 142

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American-born Greek operatic soprano 1923–1977

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