My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, “Why can’t you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can’t you be like your cousin Shelia?” Shelia had died at birth.
JOAN RIVERSEdgar had a heart attack, and I’m to blame. We were making love, and I took the bag off my head.
More Joan Rivers Quotes
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There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I’ve Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune.
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A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year – and has yet to receive a Mother’s Day card from one of them.
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You know you’re getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
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I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn’t get better. You get better.
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If you don’t want gays in the military, make the uniforms ugly.
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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
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I said Justin Bieber looked like a little lesbian — and I stand by it: He’s the daughter Cher wishes she’d had.
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On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.
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Money can’t buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.
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Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It’s all funny.
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Thank God we’re living in a country where the sky’s the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
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Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
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If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.
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I’m racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson’s back when he was black.
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My daughter and I are very close, we speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, “pick up, I know you’re there.”
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