I’ve lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.
BESS MYERSONI’ve lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.
BESS MYERSONI’m not conniving – that has a pejorative context. I’m not sitting in back rooms making deals. That’s not my style.
BESS MYERSONTo fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
BESS MYERSONEven when I jog, I need a place to get to.
BESS MYERSONAll my life I’ve been doing. For now, I’m being — being quiet, being grateful.
BESS MYERSONEverybody asks me, ‘So, what are you doing now?’ Why must I be doing something? All my life I’ve been doing something.
BESS MYERSONI really don’t like talking about diets.
BESS MYERSONYou cannot be beautiful and hate.
BESS MYERSONMen go after me, and I choose among them.
BESS MYERSONI don’t look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.
BESS MYERSONYou’ve got to love people, places, ideas; you’ve got to live with mind, body, soul; you’ve got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.
BESS MYERSONYou can’t be beautiful and hate because hate is a corroding disease and affects the way you look. … You can’t hide it – ever. It shows in your eyes. It warps your expression. It affects your character, your personality.
BESS MYERSONI never like other people to clean for me. I don’t want them to invade my own privacy.
BESS MYERSON