Women's Wicked Wit
From Jane Austen to Rosanne Barr
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2002
- Category
- General, Women's Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781556524516
- Publish Date
- Apr 2002
- List Price
- $13.95
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Description
Once a girl gets past the age of eight, she knows her deadliest weapon is her tongue. Women’s Wicked Wit is a sumptuous selection of 2,000 of women’s most acerbic comments on life, chock-full of quotations from Maria Callas, Cher, Hillary Clinton, Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Fran Lebowitz, Sophia Loren, Madonna, Dolly Parton, Miss Piggy, Joan Rivers, Rita Rudner, Mae West, Oprah Winfrey, Virginia Woolf, and many more. Nothing and no one escapes these women’s glare: women on women, women on men and other animals, and a huge range of other Subjects. The whole proves that when it comes to cutting remarks, the female of the species is indeed deadlier than the male.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Michelle Lovric writes, researches, translates, and designs anthologies and illustrated books. Her Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion was a New York Times bestseller.
Editorial Reviews
“Talk about girl talk! When it comes to men, marriage, money and more, words from the mouths of famous women are the cutting edge of wit. And Women’s Wicked Wit offers some real zingers!” —The Globe
“There is something for everyone in these pithy, funny, outrageous, enigmatic, feminist, antifeminist, arrogant, self-mocking quotations.” —Publishers Weekly
