What is barbara?

Famous quotes containing the word barbara:

    ““O mother, mother, make my bed!
    O make it saft and narrow!
    Since my love died for me today,
    I’ll die for him tomorrow.””
    —Unknown. Bonny Barbara Allan (l. 33–36)

    “You are to the Nineties what lava lamps were to the Seventies.”
    —Robert Altman, U.S. director, screenwriter, and Barbara Shulgasser. Cort Romney (Richard E. Grant)