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American author & ambassador (1903-1987)
Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
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The Women
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
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The Women
I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
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World Telegram, 1933
Thoughts have no sex.
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attributed, On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes
If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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The Women
They are vulgar and dirty-minded and alien to grace, and I would not, if I could -- which I hasten to say I cannot -- cross their obscenities with a wit which is foreign to them and gild their futilities with the glamour which by birth and breeding and performance they do not possess.
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The Women
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
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attributed, On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes
Nature abhors a virgin -- a frozen asset.
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The Women
If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?
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attributed, In Stitches: A Patchwork of Feminist Humor and Satire
When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.
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attributed, In Stitches: A Patchwork of Feminist Humor and Satire
If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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The Women
There's no use dieting in my condition. I've got to wait until I can begin from scratch.
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The Women