I was so ugly that my parents sent my picture to ‘ripley’s believe it or not’ – they sent it back and said, “we don’t believe it.”
JOAN RIVERSBo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn’t remember the lines.
More Joan Rivers Quotes
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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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I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ‘Get the hell off my property.’
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I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
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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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I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn’t get better. You get better.
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Here’s a Thanksgiving tip. Generally, your turkey is not cooked enough if it passes you the cranberry sauce.
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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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I was born in 1962, and the room next to me was 1963.
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The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are ‘age appropriate.’ For me that would be a shroud.
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One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she’s mean.
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Travel is the excitement of life! Everything is an adventure, and if you look at it like that, even at the worst moment you can say: ‘We will laugh tomorrow about this.’ And you do.
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Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.
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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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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.
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I’m in nobody’s circle, I’ve always been an outsider.
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