Bess Myerson famous quotes

05-12-2025

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

#Indifference #Corruption #Crime
Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.
-- Bess Myerson

#Needs
I really don't like talking about diets.
-- Bess Myerson

#Talking
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.
-- Bess Myerson

#Grateful #Quiet #Be Grateful
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.
-- Bess Myerson

#Ideas #People #Soul
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.
-- Bess Myerson

#Beautiful #Hate #Character
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.
-- Bess Myerson

#Mother #Home #Men
Men go after me, and I choose among them.
-- Bess Myerson

#Men
I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.
-- Bess Myerson

#Lifetime #Crisis
I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
-- Bess Myerson

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

#Mistake #Divorce #Decision
You cannot be beautiful and hate.
-- Bess Myerson

#Beautiful #Hate
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
-- Bess Myerson

#Broken Heart #Falling In Love #Simple
I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
-- Bess Myerson

#Style #Rooms #Sitting
I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.
-- Bess Myerson

#People #Want #Privacy

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