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Hi, I'm Jackie Collins. I write novels, big long powerful stories,
the kind I like to read. And thanks to you I've been lucky,
they've all been bestsellers. And now I'd like you to get… [Tracy] If she could become successful
in her own right, nobody else could take that away from her. [upbeat music playing] The double standard,
I grew up with it, didn't you?
the kind I like to read. And thanks to you I've been lucky,
they've all been bestsellers. And now I'd like you to get… [Tracy] If she could become successful
in her own right, nobody else could take that away from her. [upbeat music playing] The double standard,
I grew up with it, didn't you?
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Hi, I'm Jackie Collins.
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I write novels, big long powerful stories,
the kind I like to read.
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And thanks to you I've been lucky,
they've all been bestsellers.
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And now I'd like you to get…
00:00:13.096 --> 00:00:16.141
[Tracy] If she could become successful
in her own right,
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nobody else could take that away from her.
00:00:19.269 --> 00:00:20.895
[upbeat music playing]
00:00:23.273 --> 00:00:26.651
The double standard,
I grew up with it, didn't you?
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Movie Summary
In 1968, Jackie Collins published her first novel The World Is Full of Married Men to remarkable success and immediate scandal. Over the next decades, Collins would go on to build an empire writing books where female agency came first. Jackie Collins’ women were unapologetic about their needs and their sexual desire, and to her devoted readers, Collins became a symbol of the effortless power that defined her heroines.