When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
GLORIA VANDERBILT The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT . . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the val...
GLORIA VANDERBILT The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it in...
GLORIA VANDERBILT All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetit...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
GLORIA VANDERBILT That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
GLORIA VANDERBILT The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, be...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are a...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presen...
GLORIA VANDERBILT When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?
GLORIA VANDERBILT He had the greatest gift of all, the ability to love without fear.
GLORIA VANDERBILT We would have second thoughts about using her again.
GLORIA VANDERBILT . . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the valu...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.
GLORIA VANDERBILT In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
GLORIA VANDERBILT And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you
GLORIA VANDERBILT We would have second thoughts about using Kate Moss again. We weren't aware of any issues with Kate ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. Bu...
GLORIA VANDERBILT A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
GLORIA VANDERBILT I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't k...
GLORIA VANDERBILT If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was...
GLORIA VANDERBILT The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly wri...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always rea...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I believe in marriage and fidelity.
GLORIA VANDERBILT I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it alw...
GLORIA VANDERBILT If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going t...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Everything in life is elusive.
GLORIA VANDERBILT Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, fo...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.
GLORIA VANDERBILT I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
GLORIA VANDERBILT I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I th...
GLORIA VANDERBILT The heart of another is a dark forest.
GLORIA VANDERBILT You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
AMY VANDERBILT Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If w...
AMY VANDERBILT I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularl...
AMY VANDERBILT Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior....
AMY VANDERBILT It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks...
AMY VANDERBILT We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and po...
AMY VANDERBILT but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
AMY VANDERBILT They just looked up and there she was.
AMY VANDERBILT If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not mere...
AMY VANDERBILT When I want to buy up any politician I always find the anti-monopolists the most purchasable -- they...
WILLIAM VANDERBILT We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
AMY VANDERBILT Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
AMY VANDERBILT Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
AMY VANDERBILT I think it's safe to say that Logan Pass probably won't be open to through traffic probably for a fe...
AMY VANDERBILT It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power ...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT And with fee demonstration funding, Glacier has been able to put a lot of funding into making it mor...
AMY VANDERBILT Glacier has historically been a hiker's park. And providing wheel-chair access is another aspect to ...
AMY VANDERBILT One face to the world, another at home makes for misery
AMY VANDERBILT It's pretty cliffy there. I don't know how steep it was. It may have been a cliff, because it took f...
AMY VANDERBILT We will have personnel working on this all weekend, ... The boulder is going to require blasting to ...
AMY VANDERBILT Our crews have reported that someone did make it up to Logan Pass and they described water running d...
AMY VANDERBILT They're worried about potential under-cutting of the road surface.
AMY VANDERBILT What we know, ... is that two hikers on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, at about 10 a.m., had a close en...
AMY VANDERBILT We received 4.4 inches of rain, compared to a 10-year mean of 2.14 inches.
AMY VANDERBILT Glacier has historically been a hiker's park. And providing wheel-chair access is another aspect to ...
AMY VANDERBILT I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
AMY VANDERBILT Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing &...
JAMES VANDERBILT The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might ...
TOM VANDERBILT Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
GLORIA STEINEM Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for ...
GLORIA STEINEM The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered que...
GLORIA GAITHER My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wo...
GLORIA ESTEFAN A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.
GLORIA REUBEN In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
GLORIA STEINEM Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
GLORIA STEINEM That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage ...
GLORIA GAYNOR What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president?...
GLORIA STEINEM I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining ...
GLORIA STEINEM Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
GLORIA STEINEM Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from ...
GLORIA STEINEM If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ...
GLORIA STEINEM We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
GLORIA STEINEM The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should ...
GLORIA STEINEM Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Po...
GLORIA STEINEM There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
GLORIA STEINEM Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
GLORIA STEINEM God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there'...
GLORIA STEINEM The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hea...
GLORIA STEINEM Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling...
GLORIA STEINEM Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
GLORIA STEINEM Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar...
GLORIA STEINEM The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but to...
GLORIA ESTEFAN Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrumen...
GLORIA ESTEFAN The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity ...
GLORIA SWANSON Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywo...
GLORIA SWANSON What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy ...
GLORIA STEINEM A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
GLORIA STEINEM If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle...
GLORIA STEINEM By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEM Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I ...
GLORIA PITZER America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
GLORIA STEINEM A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
GLORIA STEINEM Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after a...
GLORIA STEINEM This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible ...
GLORIA STEINEM They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, wh...
GLORIA WHELAN Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEM The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tom...
GLORIA ESTEFAN Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations...
GLORIA STEINEM The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
GLORIA STEINEM However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some g...
GLORIA STEINEM I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
GLORIA SWANSON For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a co...
GLORIA STEINEM The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human ...
GLORIA STEINEM Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be d...
GLORIA STEINEM Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply...
GLORIA STEINEM For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us kn...
GLORIA STEINEM Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step ...
GLORIA STEINEM The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
GLORIA STEINEM When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
GLORIA SWANSON Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered ...
GLORIA STEINEM Toys tossed on the floor
Hand prints on the wall
Slamming of the door
And footsteps down t...
GLORIA BABB I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
GLORIA STEINEM No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his wo...
GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
GLORIA STEINEM Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...
GLORIA STEINEM If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
GLORIA STEINEM It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
GLORIA NAYLOR Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
GLORIA STEINEM Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
GLORIA STEINEM We are becoming the men we wanted to marry
GLORIA STEINEM Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about in...
GLORIA STEINEM I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are...
GLORIA STEINEM Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as eit...
GLORIA STEINEM You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporat...
GLORIA STEINEM Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with tha...
GLORIA STEINEM 'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at...
GLORIA STEINEM There's no shortage of great young activists.
GLORIA STEINEM Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by...
GLORIA STEINEM Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.
GLORIA STEINEM Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.
GLORIA ESTEFAN The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
GLORIA ESTEFAN The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and...
GLORIA STEINEM The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
GLORIA STEINEM I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But th...
GLORIA STEINEM Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
GLORIA STEINEM I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because m...
GLORIA STEINEM I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, t...
GLORIA ESTEFAN A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
GLORIA STUART Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after ...
GLORIA STEINEM Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
GLORIA ALLRED When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn...
GLORIA STUART A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone c...
GLORIA STEINEM I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
GLORIA SWANSON Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
GLORIA NAYLOR Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of...
GLORIA SWANSON The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in way...
GLORIA REUBEN I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me l...
GLORIA WHELAN I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation ...
GLORIA STEINEM I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
GLORIA SWANSON All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting...
GLORIA STEINEM Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in whic...
GLORIA STEINEM I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support...
GLORIA ALLRED The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were ...
GLORIA STEINEM Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.
GLORIA NAYLOR But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will yo...
GLORIA WHELAN The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
GLORIA STEINEM We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern reall...
GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more...
GLORIA STEINEM I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey He...
GLORIA STEINEM As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this cou...
GLORIA ESTEFAN A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's...
GLORIA STEINEM It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and al...
GLORIA ALLRED Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it ...
GLORIA STEINEM We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
GLORIA ESTEFAN I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligatio...
GLORIA ALLRED I think I sound like Barry White.
GLORIA GAYNOR The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that ...
GLORIA STEINEM Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
GLORIA STEINEM Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
GLORIA SWANSON I think everyone envisions me sitting at Alexandre's all day, picking out beautiful clothes from...
GLORIA GUINNESS Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they...
GLORIA STEINEM Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
GLORIA STEINEM The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
GLORIA STEINEM A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEM