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Joan Rivers: I hate housework!...

Joan Rivers: I hate housework!...

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

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Phyllis Diller: I've been asked...

Phyllis Diller: I've been asked...

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and...

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Rita Rudner: I love being...

Rita Rudner: I love being...

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your...

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Judy Collins: I don't know...

Judy Collins: I don't know...

I don't know where my songs come from . . . If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this...

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Joan Baez: Action is the...

Joan Baez: Action is the...

Action is the antidote to despair.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Alice Childress: . . ....

Alice Childress: . . ....

. . . the good old days. The only good days are ahead.

Source: Alice Childress, in...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the...

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Harriet Monroe: [He] saw the...

Harriet Monroe: [He] saw the...

[He] saw the light, and led the way
Where the gray world might greet the day.


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Charlotte Bronte: The soul, fortunately,...

Charlotte Bronte: The soul, fortunately,...

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the...

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May Swenson: We play in...

May Swenson: We play in...

We play in the den of the Gods and snort at death.

Source: To Confirm A Thing, St....

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Anne Bradstreet: There is no...

Anne Bradstreet: There is no...

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evill that we feel, or fear, but we...

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Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

Edith Sitwell: I am patient...

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Source: In...

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Sharon Stone: The philosophy of...

Sharon Stone: The philosophy of...

The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new....

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Mae West: It's not the...

Mae West: It's not the...

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

Source: In The...

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Katharine Hepburn: Sometimes I wonder...

Katharine Hepburn: Sometimes I wonder...

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and...

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Lauren Bacall: I am not...

Lauren Bacall: I am not...

I am not a has-been. I'm a will be.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Lillian Gish: Young man, if...

Lillian Gish: Young man, if...

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your...

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Gilda Radner: I can always...

Gilda Radner: I can always...

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

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Carol Burnett: Celebrity was a...

Carol Burnett: Celebrity was a...

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

Source:...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I told her...

Whoopi Goldberg: I told her...

I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

Source:...

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