"It's the
good girls who keep the Diaries - Bad girls never have the time"
- Tallulah Bankhead - American Actress
"In my sex fantasy - nobody ever loves me for my mind"
- Norah Ephron - American Writer
"An Archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: The older
she gets, the more interested he is in her"
- Agatha Christie - English Writer
"You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her"
- Ada Leverson - English Writer
"I always thought that if I were popular I must be doing something wrong"
- Suzanne Vega - American Singer and Songwriter
"To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honourable, brave, is not to be either manly
or womanly: It is to be humane"
-Jane Harrison - English Classical Scholar
"Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream"
- Stephanie Powers - American Actress
"A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you
on hold"
- Marlo Thomas - American Actress
"The idea of strictly minding our own business is mouldy rubbish. Who could be so
selfish"
- Myrtle Barker - American Columnist.
"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a
rat"
- Lily Tomlin - American Actress & Commedienne
"When a man gets up to speak, people listen. Then look. When a woman gets up, people
look, then if they like what they see, they listen"
- Pauline Frederick - American News Correspondent
"Let me listen to me and not to them"
- Gertrude Stern - American Writer
"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty, ....But I am too busy thinking
about myself"
- Edith Sitwell - English Writer
"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from
toadstools"
- Katherine Mansfield - English Writer
"The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway. So
skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing"
- Barbara Bush - American First Lady
"The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are
serious"
- Helen Rowlands - American Writer
"Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in"
- Cher - American Actress and Singer
"My idea of a superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors"
- Bette Middler - American Singer and Actress
"Oh life is a glorious cycle of song. A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing
that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania"
- Doroth Parker - American Writer and Humourist
"The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in
a woman with beautiful legs"
- Marlene Dietrich - German born American Actress
"If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one"
- Jessamyn West - American Writer
"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car
windows"
- Emma Bombeck - American Writer and Humourist
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"
- Gloria Stenem - American Feminist and Writer
"Oh I'm inadequate - And I love myself"
- Meg Ryan - American Actress
"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack"
- Marie Von Esner-Eschenbach - American Writer
"Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife"
- Shelley Winters - American Actress
"So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we
live in and what kind of car we drive.... If you think of yourself as the woman in the
Cartier Watch and the Hermes Scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions
but your self "
- Linda Henley - American Writer
"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between
taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and
the second is disastrous"
- Margot Fontein - English Dancer
"Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she
may be lucky"
- Deborah Kerr - Scottish born American Actress
"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous
aversion for the man I loved"
-Colette - French Writer
"When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love, you
cite"
- Judith Martin - American Writer
"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight"
-Phyllis Diller - American Commedienne
"Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it
loses its flavour"
-Helen Rowlands - American Writer
"Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man"
-Erica Jong - American Writer and Feminist
"When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying
dead in the street, I always hope he's dead"
-Judith Viorist - American Writer
"Man forgives woman anything, save the wit to outwit him"
- Minna Antrim - Irish Writer
"The thing woman have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take
it"
-Roseanne Barr - American Comedienne and Actress
"I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men"
- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) - English Writer
"If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem"
-Glenda Jackson - English Actress - Politician
"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions"
- Susan Sontag - American Writer & Critic
"I don't believe man is woman't natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is"
- Shanna Alexander - American Writer
"...A man should kiss his wife's navel every day"
- Nell Kimball - American Madam & Writer
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house,
you can never tell"
- Joan Crawford - American Actress
"Is it possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen"
- Mame Van Doren - American Singer
"Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses. Women for their strengths"
- Lois Wyse - American Advertising Executive
"While others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper, I just
want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine"
- Barbara Gordon - American Producer & Writer
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