"I've tried to teach by example, not decree; I don't ask students to love what I love, to need what I need. I want them, though, to appreciate what is there. Appreciation is what we owe to what is greater than ourselves, and longer lasting."
---Clara Claiborne Park

"That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say no in any of them."
---Dorothy Parker

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. "
---Dorothy Parker

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb...and I also know that I'm not blonde."
--- Dolly Parton

"I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park."
--- Dolly Parton

"Chocolate sauce is better than sex -- and much more consistant."
---Jennifer "Two Fat Ladies" Paterson

"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman."
--- Maryon Pearson

"When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work."
---Paulina Porizkova

"A woman is as young as her kness."
--- Mary Quant

"People don't talk about the soul very much anymore. It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. But a resume is a cold comfort on a winter night, or when you're sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you've gotten back the test results and they're not so good. Here is my resume. I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. "
---Anna Quinlan

"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
---Gilda Radner

"I wasn't young. I wasn't pretty. It was necesary to find other weapons."
---Dominique Aury, aka Pauline Reage

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere."
---Agnes Repplier

"OK, now I'm concerned -- the spellcheck on the mail program recognizes all sorts of words having to do with sex, pregnancy and delivery, but does not know the word condom. Conspiracy or coincidence? You decide."
---Victoria Resnick

"Behind every successful woman ... is a substantial amount of coffee."
---Stephanie Piro

"I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes--and six months later you have to start all over again."
---Joan Rivers

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
---Eleanor Roosevelt

"The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father."
---Eleanor Roosevelt

"I figure if the children are alive when he gets home, I've done my job."
--- Roseanne

"I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers."
---Linda Ronstadt

"No one should have to dance backwards all their lives."
---Jill Ruckelhaus

"I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels GOOD for 36 hours."
--- Rita Rudner

"My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives."
--- Rita Rudner

"Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love."
---Adela Rogers St. Johns

"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough..."
---Claire Sargent, would be Congresswoman from Arizona, 1992

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. "
---Dorothy L. Sayers

"Miracles are natural; when they do not occur, something has gone wrong."
---Helen Schulman

"The phrase "working mother" is redundant."
---Jane Sellman

"Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?"
---Dame Edith Sitwell

"A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car."
---Carrie Snow

"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time."
---Anna Louise de Stael

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

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
---Pamela Vaull Starr

"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
--- Gloria Steinem

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
--- Gloria Steinem

"Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
---Elizabeth Stone

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
---Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths."
---- Baroness Edith Summerskill

"I've made characters live, so that people talk about them at cocktail parties, and that, to me, is what counts."
--- Jacqueline Susann

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