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Favorite words. . . From Women For Women. . .

A woman's rule of thumb: If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it.
~Restroom wall, Dick's Last Resort, Dallas, TX

I'm tired of all of this nonsense about beauty only being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want--an adorable pancreas?
~Jean Kerr

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. Electricity makes no judgment. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it.
~Maya Angelou

Your passion is waiting
for your courage to catch up.
~Marilyn Greist

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
~Margaret Anderson

A woman is like a tea bag.
It's only when she's in hot water
that you realize how strong she is.
~Nancy Reagan

Women might be able to fake orgasms.
But men can fake entire relationships.
~Sharon Stone

Nicholas’s first birthday

My sons, Zeb and Nathan

My first grandson, Nicholas!
Isn't he the cutest?

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb, and I also know that I'm not blonde. ~Dolly Parton		Ditto. ~Betina Krahn

The only reason I would take up jogging:
to hear heavy breathing again.
~Erma Bombeck

If you read a lot of books
you're considered well-read.
But if you watch a lot of TV,
you're not considered well-viewed.
~Lily Tomlin

My family can always tell
when I'm well into a novel
because the meals get very crummy.
~Anne Tyler

Ditto.
~Betina Krahn

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture.
We may not be pure ourselves,
but we must tell the truth,
which is a purifying act.
~Rita Mae Brown

The first woman ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down; these women together ought to be able to turn it right-side up again.
~Sojourner Truth

It's not the men in my life that count,
it's the life in my men.
~Mae West

The soul should always stand ajar,
ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
~Emily Dickinson

An ounce of mother
is worth a pound of clergy.
~Spanish Proverb