THE LADIES' ROOM

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THE LADIES’ ROOM

Wit and Wisdom from
367 World-Famous Modern Women


Edited by Walter Oleksy

These are just a few of the hundreds of wise and witty
things famous modern women say in this compilation
of quotes about women, marriage, divorce, relationships,
sex and sexuality, fitness, fear and courage, beauty and
fashion, success and money, coping with age and aging,
beating housework, attaining happiness, combining
marriage with motherhood and career and, last but not
least, everything you ever wanted to know about men.


“The best smell in the world is that man that you love.”
-- Jennifer Aniston

“Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta
relax and concentrate.”
-- Susan Sarandon

“Big girls need big diamonds.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing
a man is when he is a baby.”
-- Natalie Wood

“I married a German. Every night I dress up as
Poland and he invades me.”
-- Phyllis Diller

“The main problem in marriage is that for a man,
sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry
and can’t get to a fancy French restaurant,
he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman,
what is important is love and romance.”
-- Joan Fontaine

“Marriage is not just spiritual communion.
It is also remembering to take out the trash.”
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers

“Sometimes I need to learn to bite my tongue.
And that’s the whole give-and-take about marriage
– you don’t always get your way. And let’s face it –
until you get married, you get your way. Once you
get married, you suddenly have to think of
somebody else before you make decisions, before
you speak. That’s about putting your ego in check,
about growing up and about putting someone else
in front of you.
-- Madonna

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy
is the same.”
-- Gloria Swanson

“My husband and I didn’t sign a pre-nuptial agreement.
We signed a mutual suicide pact.
-- Roseanne Barr

“The trouble with some women is that they get all
excited about nothing – and then marry him.”
-- Cher

“When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with
a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.”
-- Hedy Lamarr

“Husbands are like fires – they go out when
unattended.”
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor

“I am a committed wife. And I should be committed,
too for being married so many times.”
-- Elizabeth Taylor

“It is better for a woman to compete impersonally
in society, as men do, than to compete for
dominance in her own home with her husband,
compete with her neighbors for status, and so
smother her son that he cannot compete at all.”
-- Betty Friedan

“Men should keep their eyes wide open before
marriage, and half-shut afterwards.”
-- Madeleine de Scudery

“In a marriage, you’re promising to care about
everything. The good things, the bad things,
the terrible things, the mundane things. All of it,
all of the time, every day. You’re saying ‘Your
life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it.
Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will
be your witness.”
-- Susan Sarandon

“He’s the kind of man a woman would have to
marry to get rid of.”
-- Mae West

“Now, I think that I should have known that he
was magic all along. I did know it – but I should
have guessed that it would be too much to ask to
grow old with and see our children grow up
together. So now, he is a legend when he would
have preferred to be a man.”
-- Jackie Kennedy

“What has the women’s movement learned from
Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president?
Never get married.”
-- Gloria Steinem

“Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with five letters.
It is not a four-letter word.”
-- Dorothy Parker

“Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be
tried only once.”
-- Eva Gabor

“Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people
feel passionately about.”
-- Katharine Hepburn

“All married couples should learn the art of battle
as they should the art of making love. Good battle
is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel.
Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings
to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.”
-- Ann Landers

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a
man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the
man she married?”
-- Barbra Streisand

“'What’s for dinner?' is the only question many
husbands ask their wives, and the only one to
which they care about the answer.”
-- Mignon McLaughlin

“There are some who want to get married and others
who don’t. I have never had an impulse to go to the
altar. I am a difficult person to lead.”
-- Greta Garbo

“In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It’s trying to
live together afterwards that causes the problems.”
-- Shelley Winters

“When two people marry, they become in the eyes of
the law one person, and that one person is the husband.”
-- Shana Alexander

“I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband
she can forget.”
-- Adela Rogers St. John

“I don’t want to be married to someone who feels
inferior to my success or because I make more money
than he does.”
-- Grace Kelly

“I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting
engaged, that it’s not about the ring. It’s a grave
thing, getting married.”
-- Gwyneth Paltrow

“I’d marry again, if I found a man who had fifteen
million dollars and would sign half of it to me before
the marriage, and guarantee he’d be dead within
the year.”
-- Bette Davis

“Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the
ring, and then you wake up.”
-- Evelyn Hendrickson

“For marriage to be a success, every woman and
every man should have her and his own bathroom.
The end.”
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest
thyself all thy life for that which perchance,
will neither last nor please thee one year:
and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no
price at all.”
-- Virginia Woolf

“A woman asking ‘Am I good? Am I satisfied?’
is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about
themselves, the less they talk to other women,
the more they try to please their husbands,
the happier the marriage is going to be.”
-- Barbara Cartland

“Single women have a dreadful propensity for
being poor, which is one very strong argument
in favor of matrimony.”
-- Jane Austen

“Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners
we will be.” -- Joan Rivers

“I was married for thirty years. Isn’t that enough?
I’ve had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.”
-- Martha Stewart

“Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve
been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it
doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.”
-- Jean Kerr

“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell
this to my children, they just about throw up.”
-- Barbara Bush

“For years my wedding ring has done its job.
It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded
my husband numerous times at parties that it’s
time to go home. It has been a source of relief
to a dinner companion. It has been a status
symbol in the maternity ward.”
-- Erma Bombeck

“Frank is a better husband to me than I am
a wife to him.”
-- Kathie Lee Gifford

“Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn’t
mean I’ve been to a wedding. A Chinese man
threw up on me.”
-- Phyllis Diller

“I wish someone would have told me that just
because I’m a girl, I don’t have to get married.”
-- Marlo Thomas

“Marry Prince William? I’d love that. Who wouldn’t
want to be a princess?”
-- Britney Spears

“Being a princess isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”
-- Princess Diana

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