The One With Random Quotes Since I'm Throwing Out These Little Sheets of Paper

*When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
-Margaret Chase Smith


*If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?....There must be an epidemic of insomnia out there.
-Ellen Goodman


*There are three things I've yet to do: Opera, rodeo and porno.
-Bea Arthur


*I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
-Shelly Winters


*There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.
-Zelda Fitzgerald


*I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.
-Mary Norton


*I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic. And the others either give me a stiff neck of lockjaw.
-Tallulah Bankhead


*Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what a freedom it really is.
-Margaret Mitchell


*For though I know he loves me
 Tonight my heart is sad
 His kiss was not so wonderful
 As all the dreams I had.
-Sarah Teasdale


*I think every women is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-Adele Rogers St. Johns


*Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put "unwed" or "welfare" in front of it?
-Florynce Kennedy


*Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
-Jane Wagner


*Well, in the South they like you dead or away.
-Barry Hannah


*All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless, and brutal.
-Flannery O'Connor


*It costs so much to write a decent sentence.
-Maya Angelou


*It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
-Gertrude Stein


*If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something.
-Rita Mae Brown


*Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the yard and shot it.
-Truman Capote

*My dog died. I went out there in the yard and looked at him and there he was, dead as a hammer. Boy, I hated it. I knew I'd have to look around and see about a shovel.
-Larry Brown, "Big Bad Love"


*In the South, perhaps more than any other region, we go back to our home in dreams and memories, hoping it remains what it was on a lazy, still summer's day twenty years ago.
-Willie Morris


*We wrestle with our words the way we do with our children, so as to get syncopated with them.
-Roy Blount Jr.


*Quite early, any Southerner with a literary turn begins to realize that the language around him is radioactive.
-Guy Davenport


*I have great faith in God. And I've always felt like I've been on a little higher spiritual plane because I pray all the time. And I just reach up, crawl under the wings of angels, and press on.
-June Carter Cash