true friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient; it's about being there when it's not.


Gloria Naylor

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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'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 do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetit...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
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
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
GLORIA STEINEM
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
GLORIA STEINEM
I can't mate in captivity.
GLORIA STEINEM
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
GLORIA SWANSON
I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
GLORIA SWANSON
Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- eve...
GLORIA STEINEM
Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.
GLORIA STEINEM
Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall...
GLORIA VANDERBILT
Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years...
GLORIA STEINEM
I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
GLORIA ESTEFAN
I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We...
GLORIA STEINEM
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEM
Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future...
GLORIA REUBEN
You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding ...
GLORIA STEINEM
I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
GLORIA SWANSON