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When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now…once he opened the car door for me in the last four years – we were on the freeway at the time.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Don’t tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won’t respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, ‘Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.’.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers If God wanted us to bend over he’d put diamonds on the floor.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ‘Get the hell off my property.’
Joan RiversJoan Rivers You have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Don’t worry about the money. Love the process.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers 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.”
Joan RiversJoan Rivers 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 RiversJoan Rivers If you can’t make fun of yourself, you don’t have any right to make fun of others.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Put me up against Sarah Silverman and I could take her.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Before we make love, my husband takes a pain killer.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers
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