Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

—Fran Lebowitz

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About Fran Lebowitz

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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...

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

—Fran Lebowitz

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

—Fran Lebowitz

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

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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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

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How insulting is it to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.

—Jessica Valenti in Why Have Kids?

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There is an emptiness inside of me—a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again.

—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters

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I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put "unwed" or "welfare" in front of it?

—Florynce Kennedy

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