- "Was it me that Botticelli imagined?" Brigitte Bardot
- "I can't stand makeup commercials. 'Do you need a lipstick that keeps your lips kissable?' No, I need a lipstick that gets me equal pay for equal work. How about an eye shadow that makes me stop thinking I'm too fat?" Maria Bamford
- "I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once." Jennifer Yane
- "When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I am slipping." Maria Callas
- "Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows." Helen Nielson
- "Grandma always admonished me to be a 'good girl'. 'Why should he buy the cow when he gets the milk for free?' she'd ask. And I'd remind her that once he owns the cow, he can turn her into hamburger." Adrienne Gusoff
- "How I see it is that men get one night of pleasure, and we get nine months of putting them through hell and getting away with it." Sara Swank
- "Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything." Paris Hilton
- "I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pillbox hat and matching coat." Anna Quindlen
- "If you want to get revenge on a man, marry him!" Belinda Hadden and Amanda Chritie
- "The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what you would pay to do if you had the money." Sarah Caldwell
- "All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist." Isadora Duncan
- "I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon." Florence King
- "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" Ann Landers
- "The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow." Miss C.F. Forbes
- "To fly, we have to have resistance." Maya Lin
- "I get to work on time every day, 8:45 a.m. Because the UPS man comes at nine and he is fine as hell." Loni Love
- "They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody." Princess Di
- "I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury." Anna Kournikova
- "I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim, and now decency and good behavior weary me!" Frida Kahlo
- "People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top." Margaret Thatcher
- "Men think monogamy is something is something you make dining tables out of." Kathy Lette
- "Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice." Minna Antrim
- "Talking with a man is like trying to saddle a cow. You work like hell, but what's the point?" Gladys Upham
- "I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient." Cyra McFadden
- "NO book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems." Anna Garlin Spencer
- "People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have." Anne Tyler
- "The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there." Betty Grable
- "Love is like pi. Natural, irrational, and very important." Lisa Hoffman
- "I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists who would damn me for no working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person." Mary McCarthy
- "Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it." Ella Williams
- "I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere." Fran Leibowitz
- "I wasn't put on this earth to make you feel more like a man." Mary Bertone
- "I rang for ice, but this is ridiculous." Madeline Talmage Astor, being rescued from the Titanic
- "TV cameras tend to add 10 pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras." Kitty Carlisle
- "So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" Ayn Rand
- "You can take no credit for beauty at 16. But if you are beautiful at 60, it will be your soul's own doing." Marie Stopes
- "You never have sex the way people do in the movies. You don't do it on the floor, you don't do it standing up, you don't always have all your clothes off, you don't happen to have on all the sexy lingerie. You know, if anybody ever ripped my clothes, I'd kill them." Julianne Moore
- "My mother said, 'You won't account to anything because you procrastinate.' I said, 'Just wait.'" Judy Tenuta
- "I'm not interested in marriage. But everyone always asks, 'Don't you want to meet that special guy?' Hey, I meet special guys all the time. And if I was married, I'd have to stop doing that." Lee Arleth
- "So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men." Angie Dickinson
- "This is what I will forever hold against men in general: that they have carefully selected out and inoculated intelligent women with a sense of specialness: you're not like other girls. Damn, for a woman, you sure are bright as hell!" Dorothy Uhnak
- "I've got all the money I need...so long as I die before Monday." Sue Margolis
- "A man once told me that for a woman, I'm very opinionated. I said to him, 'For a man, you are kind of ignorant.'" Anne Hathaway
- "The way I see it, the men that I'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable." Tori Amos
- "There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment." P.D. James
- "I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'" Kathleen Madigan
- "Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts." Nan Robertson
- "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." Rita Mae Brown
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