I'm really a librarian, you know

• "Don't I look fabulous? I'm a triumph of science and fiction."
• “I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.”
• "Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."
• "I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite."
• "I have my standards. They're low, but I have them."
• "Trust your talent. You don't have to make a whore of yourself to get ahead. You really don't."
• "Get the trash off the street and back on the stage where it belongs."
• "Underneath all this drag, I'm really a librarian, you know."
• "Thank God for the gays. I don't know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me."
• "I'm working my way toward divinity."
• "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!"

Our Patron Saint of Décolletage, Honolulu's finest, The Divine Miss M is - gulp! - 75 years old today!

We adore the woman.

By way of a tribute - among the many, many tributes I have paid to her over the years - here she is in partnership with a fellow Diva, paying tribute to her/their heroines of trash...

Cher & Bette Midler - Trashy Ladies Medley

Many, many happy returns, Bette Midler (born 1st December 1945)