The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.
JOAN RIVERSMy 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.
More Joan Rivers Quotes
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I was born in 1962, and the room next to me was 1963.
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You have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.
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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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Before we make love, my husband takes a pain killer.
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Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I believe when a woman enters a room, men should stand up – and gay men should stand up at least halfway.
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Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say ‘My wife makes a delicious cake’ to some hooker?
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When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn’t wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby.
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I said to my husband, ‘Why don’t you call out my name when we’re making love?’ He said, ‘I don’t want to wake you up.’
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I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I’d look like without plastic surgery.
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Keep moving. It’s hard for old age to hit a moving target.
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A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she’s a tramp.
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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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We don’t apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don’t get it, then don’t watch us.
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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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In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.
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