Success Quote by Barbra Streisand

There’s a seductive gloss to Streisand’s line: it sounds like romantic destiny, but it’s really about visibility. “Dream” does double duty here - not just desire, but validation. The wish isn’t simply to be loved; it’s to be singled out, curated, imagined into importance by someone else’s gaze. That’s the quiet sting: the fantasy is less about partnership than about being chosen as the definitive object.

Coming from Streisand, the subtext gets sharper. Her career was built on being both inside and outside the traditional “dream woman” mold - famously scrutinized for her looks, her voice, her refusal to shrink. In that light, the quote can read as confession and critique at once: even women who rewrite the rules still feel the cultural gravity of those rules. The entertainment industry, especially in Streisand’s era, trained women to measure themselves against an external ideal and then compete to embody it. “Some man’s” is key: not all men, not the male gaze as a monolith, but one man’s specific fantasy. That narrows the demand from “be perfect” to “be perfect for him,” which is how the standard sneaks in as intimacy.

The intent lands like a backstage truth about romance in a patriarchal culture: a lot of “dreaming” women are taught to do is strategic. Wanting love is human; wanting to be someone’s dream is what happens when love is marketed as a trophy and being desired is treated as a life raft.