Saturday, January 22, 2005
Great Quotes By Great Women (Part Two)
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‘Old age ain’t no place for sissies’. -Bette Davis-
With the mind slowly going out for lunch and the butt going south not just for the winter but forever I have to stop every once in a while to figure out if I’m entering a room or leaving it.
When I do figure out I’m entering it I have to leave it to remember why I went into it! Oh well it increases the amount of exercise I get.
‘A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A women must do what he can’t. -Rhonda Hansome-
Not to brag or anything but my flab has muscles. If I didn’t have a water softener, a cat, and a wild bird feeder I’d never have to breathe deep or try not to fart again!
‘The phrase “working mother” is redundant’. -Jane Sellman-
Need I even comment on this one other than the old “a woman’s work is never done”.
‘Every time I close the door on reality, it comes through the windows’. -Jennifer Unlimited-
No matter how fast I run or where I hide life always seems to find me. But I guess that is good because I hate boredom and I don’t like being alone.
‘Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult’. -Charlotte Whitton-
Yet when I counted the dollars in my paycheck there never seemed to be as many as in the old man’s check! ‘It must be my juices!!’
‘Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.’ -Caryn Leschen-
But I find that I got sexier and the hubby started paying attention because they said he was on the downhill slide! Now when I feel I’m sexy I look in the mirror and laugh like hell!
‘I try to take one day at a time--but sometimes several days attack me at once.’ -Jennifer Unlimited-
I find I can’t remember the days, weeks, or months, but those damn years ganged up on me big time!!
‘If you can’t be a good example--then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning’. -Catherine-
This I can do!! I have found being a warning is a whole lot more fun than being a good example!
So as my pillow says ‘The Golden Years Suck!’ I worked and waited for the time when we would be free to travel and found only illness at the end of the wait. But I still can smile because I have lived longer than I ever thought I would many years ago! I guess ‘Only the good die young is true in my case’!
One more part to go !!!
Great Quotes By Great Women ( Part One)
Sometimes I wish I were Molly. She knows what to do when three inches of snow is added to what is already on the ground and thermometer reads around six above! But if I were Molly I would not receive this E-mail from a dear friend to share with you!
Titled Great Quotes By Great Ladies it hit close to home several times. If I may take the liberty I have added my comments to it.
‘Inside every older lady is a younger lady--wondering what the xxxx happened.’
- Cora Harvey Armstrong-
That is the truth—take a close look at a photo from high school and now look in the mirror.
‘Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut her up with cookies.’-?-
I have shut this woman up for 69 years and 11 months. It has not been easy but I have enjoyed every calorie of it!
‘The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.’ -Helen Hayes (at 73)-
Lacking one month of life I feel fully qualified to verify that Helen is so right. In fact I had heard that the first 100 years are the hardest and by then you are laid out and don’t give a rat’s ass!
‘I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.’ -Janette Barber-
On the chin, under the nose, on the chest, or sticking out of my ears these pesky little bristles seem to believe that I am a male which is hard to explain with the tits sticking out also!
‘A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car.’ -Carrie Snow-
I never had a gynecologist but my dealings with males, when you are ill or emotional, can be summed up with ‘you are being controlled by your juices.’ (Can’t remember the exact phrase because I smacked who said it to me and warned others not to say it!)
‘Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends.’ -Laurie Kuslansky-
I have to disagree with Laurie on this one. The second part of original quote was ‘Cry and you cry alone’. This is the best course of action for any woman who needs to protect her sanity. You don’t blab to anyone!!
‘My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint’. -Erma Bombeck-
I’m with Erma on this one. I detested setting up an ironing board. It was like being tied to the ship’s mast to be lashed to death. But my back was saved when ‘no iron’ material was developed. In fact I bought a new ironing board cover three months ago and it has never felt the heat of an iron!!
Enough for now but I’ll be back with more quotes and comments. Why ? Because I can’t keep my opinions to my self!!!