Gina Barreca famous quotes

03-28-2025

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.
-- Gina Barreca

#Wine #Chocolate #Cheesy
If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.
-- Gina Barreca

#Chance #Trouble #Your Future
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.
-- Gina Barreca

#Book #Reading #Intimate
Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'
-- Gina Barreca

#Envy #Dating #Guy
Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.
-- Gina Barreca

#Laughing #Touching #Hug
My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.
-- Gina Barreca

#Looks #Body #Longing
If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.
-- Gina Barreca

#Women #Anger #Class
...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you've never been hurt.'...After years of hearing and reading these lines I have decided to tell the truth: the original version is wrong. There is a grave error in the wording of this adage. The correct version should go as follows: Love like you don't need the money, Work like nobody is watching, Dance like you've never been hurt. See? Doesn't that make more sense?
-- Gina Barreca

#Hurt #Reading #Years
How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.
-- Gina Barreca

#Girl #Your Best Friend #Should
Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.
-- Gina Barreca

#Attendance #Rewards #Badges

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