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When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
- Margaret Turnbull

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H. L. MenckenUS editor (1880 - 1956)

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"French writer (1900 - 1944)

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
- Edith SitwellEnglish biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964)

By whom?
- Dorothy Parker, when told she was outspokenUS author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
- Mae WestUS movie actress (1892 - 1980)

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
- Nancy AstorBritish politician (1879 - 1964)

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
- Helen Gurley Brown

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
- Ruby Manikan

This Englishwoman is so refined
She has no bosom and no behind.
- Stevie Smith

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
- Virginia WoolfEnglish novelist (1882 - 1941)

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
- Virginia WoolfEnglish novelist (1882 - 1941)

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
- Rosalind Russell

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more.
- Collen McCullough

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.
- Missy Dizick

My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
- Jane Fonda

Actions lie louder than words.
- Carolyn Wells

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
- Joan RiversUS comedienne (1935 - )

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.
- Gloria SwansonUS actress (1899 - 1983)

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
- Betty Friedan

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
- Josephine Tey

Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
- Barbara Stanwyck

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.
- Phyllis Chesler

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
- Alison Lurie

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
- Rita Mae BrownUS author and social activist

The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.
- Xaviera Hollander

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
- Clare Booth LuceUS diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987)

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
- Joan RiversUS comedienne (1935 - )

A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally.
- Lillian Day

The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.
- Elizabeth Jenkins

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
- Judith Stern

Excessive literary production is a social offense.
- George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann EvansEnglish novelist (1819 - 1880)

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
- Nancy Mitford

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
- Mark Twain, in Christian ScienceUS humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

In love there are things --- bodies and words.
- Joyce Carol OatesUS author (1938 - )

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
- Mae WestUS movie actress (1892 - 1980)

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- Iris MurdochBritish novelist (1919 - 1999)

Never give up and never face the facts.
- Ruth Gordon

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
- Mignon McLaughlin

No nice men are good at getting taxis.
- Katharine Whitehorn

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.
- Nancy AstorBritish politician (1879 - 1964)

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month, other just go over them.
- Sally Poplin

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
- Judy GarlandUS actress & singer (1922 - 1969)

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
- Mae WestUS movie actress (1892 - 1980)

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
- Dame Edith Sitwell

Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
- Clare Booth LuceUS diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987)

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
- Clare Booth LuceUS diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987)

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband.
- Lady Bird JohnsonUS wife of Lyndon Johnson 1934 (1912 - )

 

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