I’m not conniving – that has a pejorative context. I’m not sitting in back rooms making deals. That’s not my style.
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 MYERSONEven when I jog, I need a place to get to.
BESS MYERSONI never like other people to clean for me. I don’t want them to invade my own privacy.
BESS MYERSONAll my life I’ve been doing. For now, I’m being — being quiet, being grateful.
BESS MYERSONTo fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
BESS MYERSONMen go after me, and I choose among them.
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 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’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 cannot be beautiful and hate.
BESS MYERSONI’ve lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.
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 MYERSON