Quotes from 'famous' and 'infamous' women.

[matriarch]

Disclaimer: None of the following are intended to offend, no man bashing is involved, and no men, women, politicians or cookies were injured in the discovery of these truths.

Enjoy.

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Great Quotes by Great Ladies!


Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut the bitch up with cookies.
-Unknown Abs..........just for you.

Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the hell happened.
-Cora Harvey Armstrong-

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
-Helen Hayes (at 73)-

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.
-Janette Barber-

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
-Lily Tomlin-

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

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends.
-Laurie Kuslansky-

My second favourite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
-Erma Bombeck- I thought about taking this one out, out of regard for Min, but on reflection, I know she won't think of me as being insensitive for leaving it in.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.
-Bette Davis- Indeedy.

A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
-Rhonda Hansome-

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

Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.
-Jennifer Unlimited-

Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
-Charlotte Whitton-

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
-Caryn Leschen-

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
-Jennifer Unlimited-

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
-Catherine-

When I was young, I was put in a school for retarded kids for two years before they realized I actually had a hearing loss. And they called ME slow!
-Kathy Buckley-

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb .. and I'm also not blonde.
-Dolly Parton- This one's just for Kitten

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
-Sue Grafton-

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on
-Roseanne Barr-

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
-Elayne Boosler- So that's why he did it...duhhhhhh

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

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man- if you want anything done, ask a woman.
-Margaret T hatcher- It goes very much against my principles to include anything written by this...'woman'....but in this instance......

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

I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor-

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
-Eleanor Roosevelt-

 

[cloudy]

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. ~ Jane Austen

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. ~ Hellen Keller

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. ~ Dorothy Parker Gotta love this one.

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. ~ Dorothy Parker I included this one for me....the storms *sigh*

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ~ Bette Davis

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. ~ Mae West

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. ~ Janis Joplin

 

[matriarch]

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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ~ Bette Davis

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. ~ Mae West

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. ~ Janis Joplin

These three will probably stick with me the most.

Thank you, Beautiful.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Thank you ladies.......I love em.

 

[cloudy]

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

I think this one resonates for me very, very strongly.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Gotta love Dorothy Parker.

 

[R. Richard]

Since I used to make my money by collecting what was owed (plus a bit extra for the effort), I will always remember an aphorism frequently used by my cousin, "If I have to come and find you again, I will break your other arm."