Wild Words From Wild Women         Mar 24, 1998

Since it's an Oscar night, it's only appropriate that I 
print some quotes from the entertainment (and other) worlds.  
I have a sinking feeling it will be enough...

LadyHawke
*~*~*~*~*~*

Being a performer was always my destiny.  When I was
born, the doctors didn't have to pop me to get me going.
It was like, "Thank you, thank you.  I am here!"  I was ready
to party.
		Whoopi Goldberg,  Comedienne and actress

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction-
I've worked hard for them!
		Maggie Kuhn,  Founder of the Gray Panthers

I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.  If that 
makes me a bitch, okay.
		Madonna    (nuff said!)

My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead,
so I dyed my hair red.
		Jane Fonda,  Film star, Activist,

We cannot take anything for granted, beyond the first mathematical
formulae.  Question everything else.
		Maria Mitchell,  Vassar professor and astronomer

A gossip is someone who talks to you about others, a bore is one 
who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist
is one who talks to you about yourself.
		Lisa Kirk,  Singer

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie 
about your age.
		Lucille Ball,  Comedienne

My reaction to porno films is as follows:  After the first ten minutes,
I want to go home and screw.  After the first twenty minutes, I 
never want to screw again as long as I live.
		Erica Jong,   Author    (FABULOUS-ke)

I never worry about diets.  The only carrots that interest me are 
the number you get in a diamond.
		Mae West
	Sex goddess honored in 1933 by the Central Association
	of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for "popularizing the
	natural plumpness of the female figure"

Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about
something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before
you finish saying it.
		Helen Rowland,  author

"We, the people of the United States."  Which "We, the people"?
The women were not included." 
		Lucy Stone,  suffragist

"Something is wrong here:  sex has been with us since the human
race began its existence, yet I would estimate that ninety percent 
of human beings still suffer from enormous inhibitions in this area."
		Xaviera Hollander, aka The Happy Hooker

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you
should have stayed a virgin."
		Lillian Carter,
		Mother of President Jimmy, Gloria, Ruth, and Bill

I never made any money till I took off my pants.
		Sally Rand,  Legendary exotic fan dancer

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable
uncertainty;  not knowing what comes next.
		Ursula K. LeGuin,
	One of the first female science fiction scribes to venture 
	where no woman had gone before.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.
		Professor Avital Ronell,
	Comparative literature specialist and a self-proclaimed
	"ivory-tower terrorist."