GREAT QUOTES BY GREAT LADIES

[polmaven]

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

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually
shut her up with cookies.

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 gynecologist 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 favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting
my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
-Erma Bombeck-

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

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-

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-

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 Thatcher-

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

I am a marvelous 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-

[Placebo]

1. "Shove it!"

—Teresa Heinz

[two gun sid]

2. One of my favorites....

"Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is this power reduced to a science. Governments never lead; they follow progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then." — Lucy Parsons, 1905

[Catchawave]

3. One of my favs:

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
-Alice Walker

[all.of.me]

4. this is great

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