Women's Wicked Wit From Jane Austen to Roseanne Barr

by Lovric, Michelle

• ISBN13: 9781556523878
• ISBN10: 1556523874
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

Forget scratching and hair-pulling: once a girl gets past the age of eight, she knows her deadliest weapon is her tongue. Women's Wicked Wit is a selection of women's most acerbic comments on life, chock-full of quotations from Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Tallulah Bankhead, Hillary Clinton, Bette Davis, George Eliot, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Germaine Greer, Rita Hayworth, Erica Jong, Madonna, Katherine Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Parker, Dolly Parton, Joan Rivers, Bessie Smith, Margaret Thatcher, Edith Wharton, Oprah Winfrey, 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, from birth to burial, romance to revenge, and money to mortality. The whole proves that when it comes to cutting remarks, the female of the species is indeed deadlier than the male.

Author Biography

Michelle Lovric writes, researches, translates, and designs anthologies and illustrated books. Her Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion was a New York Times bestseller.

Table of Contents

Women on Women	1	(4)
Women on Men	5	(22)
The Sex War	27	(14)
Love	41	(16)
Sex	57	(10)
Marriage & Divorce	67	(24)
Happy Families	91	(13)
Who Needs Enemies?	104	(9)
Bimbos, Himbos & Bluestockings	113	(14)
Brief Encounters	127	(6)
Hollywood & Beyond	133	(18)
Hisdemeanours & Missdemeanours	151	(18)
Bad Behaviour	169	(20)
Conspicuous Consumption	189	(8)
Food, Fat & Dieting	197	(12)
Appearances	209	(28)
Work, Power & Money	237	(14)
The Arts	251	(9)
Sport	260	(5)
Animals	265	(6)
People & Places	271	(18)
Having the Vapours	289	(8)
RIP	297