Bess Myerson Quotes

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

You can't be beautiful and hate because hate is a corroding disease and affects the way you look. ... You can't hide it - ever. It shows in your eyes. It warps your expression. It affects your character, your personality.

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

I really don't like talking about diets.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.

All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

Men go after me, and I choose among them.

I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

You cannot be beautiful and hate.