Cannot Remove the Double Quotes on a Certain Word (String) Python BeautifulSoup

[soothsayerpg]

Hi guys,

How's it going?

I've been in weeks trying to remove a double-quote (") from a word (as I want to count the word in a certain text or webpage and what not).

Been going back and forth in changing the variable to list or string in order to use their methods.

Here's my code:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = 'https://burniva.com/sam-smith-weight-loss/'
r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')

articles = soup.find('div', class_="cmsmasters_text")
paragraphs = articles.find_all('p')

new_p = []
for p in paragraphs:
    new_p.append(p.get_text())

for p in new_p:
    print(str(p).lstrip('"'))

There would be words like:
“Stay with Me” and “I’m not the Only One”,
"Latch"
“The Thrill of It All”
“Oh! Carol”
etc. etc....

I cannot remove those double-quotes. Tried .replace, .strip, even if I .split them up or turn them into a list. I can remove other special characters like punctuation, apostrophe, period, etc. etc.... but never the double-quotes.

Pls. try the code and you'll get the output of all the article including those that I had mentioned.

Hope someone can help me as I am now very interested to what I am missing, to why I cannot remove them and have a clean list of only just words.

Thanks in advance!