Quotes from my "Wild Words from Wild Women" calendar:


"I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both."

- Patricia Schroeder, Colorado congresswoman


"It's not how old you are but how you are old."

- Marie Dressler, who obtained her Oscar at age fifty-eight


"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

- Loretta Lynn, country and western singer


"I want no fences around me, unless I erect them myself."

- Faye Dunaway, free-thinking film actress


"All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else."

- Mae West, doyenne of the sexy double-entendre


"Great food is like great sex - the more you have the more you want."

- Gael Greene, renowned restaurant critic


"The glass ceiling gets more pliable when you turn up the heat."

- Pauline R. Kezer, Connecticut secretary of state


"Oh, I'm so inadequate - and I love myself!"

- Meg Ryan, movie actress


"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi, former prime minister of India


"I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by 'feminine' principles - qualities like love and care and intuition."

- Anita Roddick, founder of the fabulously successful Body Shop store


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

- Barbara Walters, mother of the misty-eyed interview


"The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are the women who have never been in the workplace."

- Cynthia Heimel, humorist, tackling a touchy topic


"Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise."

- Kathleen Turner, who dared to appear bare at the age of forty-six


"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."

- Sophia Loren, still sexy and nearing seventy


"Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless."

- Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics


"A lot of guys think the larger a woman's breasts are, the less intelligent she is. I don't think it works like that. I think it's the opposite. I think the larger a woman's breasts are, the less intelligent men become."

- Anita Wise, satirist