Autumn Stephens

I belong to that group of people who move the piano by themselves.

—Eleanor Robson Belmont,

Think bigger! Be a millionaire, don't marry one.

—Nell Merlino, cofounder of Take Your Daughter to Work Day

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

the actress Valerie Perrine, quoted herein: “I don't care what a man thinks of me as long as I get what I want from him—which is usually sex.”)

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

—Katherine Hepburn,

It's very expensive to be me

—Anna Nicole Smith,

When I fight, there is usually a funeral and it isn't mine.

—Henrietta Green, fearless financier of the nineteenth century

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

—Mignon McLaughlin, aphorist

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist leader

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

—Pearl Bailey, entertainer of Hello Dolly fame