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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

As I grow older and older,
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom.
- Dorothy Sayers

This is on me.
- Dorothy Parker, suggested for her tombstoneUS author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
- Dorothy Parker, telegram to friend who had given birthUS author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Sir Francis BaconEnglish author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
- Virginia WoolfEnglish novelist (1882 - 1941)

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
- Mary Wilson Little

When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush\ just once.
- Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.
- Karen Horney

Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves.
- Laurie Jo Wojcik

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
- Harriet Beecher StoweUS abolitionist & novelist (1811 - 1896)

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
- Indira GandhiIndian politician (1917 - 1984)

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
- Margaret MeadUS anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978)

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
- Eric Ambler

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.
- Cathy Guisewite

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
- Harriet Braiker

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
- Margaret MitchellUS novelist (1900 - 1949)

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
- Celia Green

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.
- Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame

My father was often angry when I was most like him.
- Lillian HellmanUS dramatist (1905 - 1984)

Whenever I get married I start buying
Gourmet Magazine
.
- Nora Ephron

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
- Harriet Van Horne

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
- Nora Ephron

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
- M. F. K. Fisher

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
- Mary Queen of Scots

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
- Jane AustenEnglish novelist (1775 - 1817)

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
- Iris MurdochBritish novelist (1919 - 1999)

I love children --- especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
- Nancy Mitford

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
- Marlene DietrichGerman movie actress (1901 - 1992)

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
- Anatole FranceFrench novelist (1844 - 1924)

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
- Margot Asquith

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
- Rose Macauley

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
- Queen Victoria

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
- Hannah More, 1775

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
- Bette MidlerUS actress, comedienne, & singer (1945 - )

I feel like a million tonight --- but one at a time.
- Mae WestUS movie actress (1892 - 1980)

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
- Dorothy Parker, book reviewUS author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires.
- Dorothy ParkerUS author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

My favorite animal is steak.
- Fran LebowitzUS writer and humorist (1950 - )

God is love, but get it in writing.
- Gypsy Rose LeeUS actress & stripper (1914 - 1970)

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
- Rebecca WestIrish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983)

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.
- Dorothy ParkerUS author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
- Nora Ephron

Nothing succeeds like address.
- Fran LebowitzUS writer and humorist (1950 - )

Oregano is the spice of life.
- Henry J. Tillman

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.
- Ty-Grace Atkinson

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
- Madame Curie

When women go wrong, men go right after them.
- Mae WestUS movie actress (1892 - 1980)

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
- Katharine HepburnUS actress (1907 - 2003)