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    Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations and Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots (Best Friend Gift, Fans of Great Quotes from Great Women)
    Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations and Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots (Best Friend Gift, Fans of Great Quotes from Great Women)
    Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations and Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots (Best Friend Gift, Fans of Great Quotes from Great Women)
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    Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations and Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots (Best Friend Gift, Fans of Great Quotes from Great Women)

    By Autumn Stephens

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    Words of Wisdom from Wild Women

    In Wild Words from Wild Women, author and feminist August Stephens compiles words of wisdom from much loved famous feminists. Hilarious, inspiring, and empowering, this pocket book of quotes is the perfect gift for all the nasty women with something to say.

    Some tongues just can’t be tamed. This ribald compilation of powerful women quotes everything from bras to babies, menopause to men, and politics to parties. Featuring historically nasty women like Jane Austen and Billie Jean King, these famous feminists knew how to read between the lines─and now you can too.

    Strong women have something to say. These words of wisdom─from strippers, CEOs, poets, senators, and every woman in between─make delectable reading for sassy, untamable, and fabulous ladies everywhere.

    Inside, find powerful women quotes from famous feminists like:

    • Billie Holiday
    • Virginia Wolfe
    • Coco Chanel
    • And more!

    If you enjoyed books like Badass Affirmations, That's What She Said, or Great Quotes from Great Women, then you’ll love Wild Words from Wild Women.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherConari Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2014
    ISBN9781609259792
    Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations and Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots (Best Friend Gift, Fans of Great Quotes from Great Women)
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    Autumn Stephens

    Autumn Stephens is the editor of Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick and the Wild Women series of biography and humor. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and various newspapers and magazines. A former book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, Autumn leads book group discussions and conducts writing workshops for women with cancer. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and two children.

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      Not a book you read just once. It's a book you pick up and skim through when trying to find the right words to describe something all the time.
    • 4/5
      This is a fun little quote book from the wild women series--i'm not sure about the authority index though because some of it smacks of apocropha/urban legend and i like to know whereof i speak although sometimes truth and fact can ruin a good story.

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    Wild Words from Wild Women - Autumn Stephens

    Garrulous Goddesses

    I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

    I can throw a fit, I'm a master at it.

    —Madonna, chameleonesque queen of chutzpah.

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

    The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

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

    —Satirist Fran Lebowitz, an inspiration to every sarcastic smart-ass who ever got herself booted out of high school.

    Besides Shakespeare and me, who do you think there is?

    It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

    The Jews have produced only three originative geniuses: Christ, Spinoza, and myself.

    —Writer Gertrude Stein, who loomed large in the avant-garde circles of her day, and larger still in the privacy of her own mind.

    Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

    —Kate Braverman, agitated author of the cult classic Lithium for Medea.

    I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.

    —Stella Adler, Methodic mentor to big screen kings Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro.

    (If she were a character in a Greek play, one interviewer concluded, her flaw would be hubris.)

    I have a horror of death; the dead are so soon forgotten. But when I die, they'll have to remember me.

    —Emily Dickinson, a poet far too singular to slip anybody's mind.

    I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

    —Margaret Fuller. The brilliant Bostonian who wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century was a shocking exhibitionist when it came to her brain.

    The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

    —Prolific poet/prosaist May Sarton, a major menace to society.

    I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

    If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

    —Alice Roosevelt Longworth, one of America's nastiest national institutions.

    Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

    —Broadcast newswoman Barbara Walters, a very caring conversationalist.

    Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

    —Professor Avital Ronell, comparative literature specialist, and a self-proclaimed ivory-tower terrorist.

    The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soap boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. It's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

    —Screenwriter Anita Loos, who maintained that gentlemen were incapable of appreciating either brunettes or the basic facts of life.

    I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

    Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

    —God-like gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. With a flick of her poisonous pen, she could write a Hollywood hopeful right out of the picture.

    I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

    So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

    —Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the strapping spokeswoman for nineteenth-century suffragists.

    Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

    —Tillie Olsen. After twenty years of transcribing other people's words, the long-suppressed author of Silences finally found her own voice.

    We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous, and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

    —American etiquette maven, Miss Manners, née Judith Martin, apparently not to the (excruciatingly correct) manner born.

    I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.

    —Carol Channing. Shy, perhaps, but scarcely retiring: in her eighth decade of life, Hello Dolly is still a happening thing.

    I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

    Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.

    Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

    —Writer Jane Wagner, the wry collaborative mind behind some of Lily Tomlin's best lines.

    Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

    —Syndicated columnist Liz Smith, dedicated to keeping a news-hungry nation apprised of the triumphs, tragedies, and predictable little peccadillos of those who live in (or for) the limelight.

    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.

    —Singer Lisa Kirk, waxing eloquent on the subject of oral emissions.

    People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

    —Writer Rebecca West, puzzled (but not insulted) by the F-word.

    My goal is to be accused of being strident.

    —Susan Faludi, scribe of the stinging Backlash.

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