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Women's Wicked Wit

From Jane Austen to Rosanne Barr

by (author) Michelle Lovric

Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2002
Category
General, Women's Studies
  • 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