Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant RemarksQuirk Books, 15/02/2011 - 480 páginas Wit and wisdom from A to Z—a super-sized collection of inspirational quotes from bad*ss women in history and today, including Oprah Winfrey, Marilyn Monroe, and Toni Morrison. With more than 3,000 quotations on everything from fashion and feminism to men, marriage, friendship, history, technology, sports, and more, this massive compilation proves once and for all that women know everything! Each page offers wisdom, wit, and inspiration from a host of legendary women—from Jane Austen and Colette to Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Toni Morrison, Liz Phair, Ellen DeGeneres, and Naomi Klein. Here’s what they have to say about: Success “I still have my feet on the ground. I just wear better shoes.” —Oprah Winfrey Men and Women “Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backward and in high heels.” —Faith Whittlesey Being Single “I’ve never been married, but I tell people I’m divorced so they won’t think something’s wrong with me.” —Elayne Boosler Individuality “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” —Judy Garland Family “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.” —Maya Angelou Quotations “I always have a quotation for everything—it saves original thinking.” —Dorothy L. Sayers With contributions from writers, artists, celebrities, politicians, scientists, and legendary figures all over the world, Women Know Everything! offers addictive reading—and a superb reference—for women of all ages. |
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... JOURNALIST AND WRITER - What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on ...
... JOURNALIST AND WRITER - What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on ...
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... JOURNALIST AND HISTORIAN - My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her. —Col.BTTE (1873–1954) • FRENCHWRITER - There are no ordinary cats. —cole TTE (1873–1954). FRENCH writeR - Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live ...
... JOURNALIST AND HISTORIAN - My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her. —Col.BTTE (1873–1954) • FRENCHWRITER - There are no ordinary cats. —cole TTE (1873–1954). FRENCH writeR - Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live ...
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... WRITER - You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. —JANE PAULEY (1950-) Anterican TV NEWS ANCHOR AND JOURNALIST - A dog. I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. –JEAN Burden 20TH/21ST-CENTURY AMERICAN POET, ESSAYIST, AND ...
... WRITER - You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. —JANE PAULEY (1950-) Anterican TV NEWS ANCHOR AND JOURNALIST - A dog. I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. –JEAN Burden 20TH/21ST-CENTURY AMERICAN POET, ESSAYIST, AND ...
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... Book critic, EDITOR, AND LECTURER - ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself. –KATHARINE WHITEHORN (1926–) ENGLISH JOURNALIST, WRITER, AND COLUMNIST CHALLENGE I believe in ...
... Book critic, EDITOR, AND LECTURER - ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself. –KATHARINE WHITEHORN (1926–) ENGLISH JOURNALIST, WRITER, AND COLUMNIST CHALLENGE I believe in ...
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... writer - Chocolate . . . is not something you can take or leave, something ... JOURNALIST - The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself ... WRITER AND ILLUSTRATOR CHOICES “CHOICES.” If you choose to do something, then you 70 ...
... writer - Chocolate . . . is not something you can take or leave, something ... JOURNALIST - The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself ... WRITER AND ILLUSTRATOR CHOICES “CHOICES.” If you choose to do something, then you 70 ...
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Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks Karen Weekes Pré-visualização limitada - 2007 |
Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks Karen Weekes Pré-visualização indisponível - 2011 |
Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks Karen Weekes Pré-visualização indisponível - 2011 |
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