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Frances Ann Lebowitz (; born October 27, 1950) is an American writer, public speaker, cultural critic, and actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life, particularly from a New York City perspective, and for her association with prominent figures in the city's art and cultural scenes during the 1970s and 1980s. Lebowitz gained prominence with her books Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981), which are collected in The Fran Lebowitz Reader (1994).

Quotes from Fran Lebowitz

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

—Fran Lebowitz

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

—Fran Lebowitz

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

—Fran Lebowitz

My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my belt size. it came with the territory of being heavy. Obese people have a lifetime of experience with shame.

—Fran Lebowitz

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

—Fran Lebowitz

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

—Fran Lebowitz

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

—Fran Lebowitz

Success didn't spoil me. I've always been insufferable.

—Fran Lebowitz

Money . . . buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors. . . . The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

—Fran Lebowitz

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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

—Fran Lebowitz

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Nature is by and large to be found out-of-doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

—Fran Lebowitz

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

—Fran Lebowitz

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Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

—Fran Lebowitz

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

—Fran Lebowitz

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

—Fran Lebowitz

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