Sealioness Quotes Page
WOMEN ON POLITICS:
There's never been a good government. Emma Goldman
Tories are not always wrong, but they are always wrong at the right moment. Lady Violet Bonham Carter
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals. Clare Boothe Luce
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then----we elected them. Lily Tomlin
One of the things that politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. Margaret Thatcher
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed---or so distressed the comfortable. Clare Boothe Luce (on Eleanor Roosevelt)
The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person---her husband. Lady Bird Johnson
The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack the Ripper. Geraldine Ferraro
Is there life after the White House? Betty Ford
WOMEN ON INFIDELITY:
I don't think there are many men who are faithful to their wives. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One man's folly is another man's wife. Helen Rowland
Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives. Marilyn Monroe
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife. Clare Boothe Luce
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. Abigail Van Buren
WOMEN ON HOMOSEXUALITY:
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you probably found is a Lesbian. Fran Lebowitz
Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull. Rita Mae Brown
If homosexuality were the normal way God would have made Adam and Bruce. Anita Bryant
Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen. Anita Loos
WOMEN ON ANIMALS:
The playful kitten with its pretty little tigerish gambole is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world. Lady Sydney Morgan
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. Missy Dizick
Let us love dogs, let us only love dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures. Maria Konstantinova Bashkirtseff
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. Elizabeth Taylor
WOMEN ON MANNERS:
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than badly cooked dinners and untidy ways. Isabella Beeton
The three great stumbling blocks in a girl's education, she says, are homard`a l'Americaine, a boiled egg, and asparagus. Shoddy table manners, she says, have broken up many a happy home. Colette
A car is useless in New York, essential anywhere else. The same with good manners. Mignon McLaughlin
It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen. Mamie Van Doren
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding. Lady Violet Bonham Carter
It is a gentleman's first duty to remember in the morning who it was he took to bed with him. Dorothy L. Sayers
He is every other inch a gentleman. Dame Rebecca West
WOMEN ON LITERATURE:
Books succeed, And lives fail. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Ruth Rendell
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. Anne Frank
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read. Francoise Sagan
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. Virginia Woolf
Henry James chews more than he bites off. Mrs. Henry Adams
Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it. Charlotte Bronte
Why don't you write books people can read? Nora Joyce (to her husband, James)
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication. Fran Lebowitz
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