Women's Wicked Wit: From Jane Austen to Rosanne Barr

By Michelle Lovric

Book Overview

Once a girl gets past the age of eight, she knows her deadliest weapon is her tongue. Women's Wicked Wit is a sumptuous selection of 2,000 of women's most acerbic comments on life, chock-full of quotations from Maria Callas, Cher, Hillary Clinton, Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Fran Lebowitz, Sophia Loren, Madonna, Dolly Parton, Miss Piggy, Joan Rivers, Rita Rudner, Mae West, Oprah Winfrey, Virginia Woolf, and many more. Nothing and no one escapes these women's glare: women on women, women on men and other animals, and a huge range of other subjects. The whole proves that when it comes to cutting remarks, the female of the species is indeed deadlier than the male.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155652451X
• ISBN13: 9781556524516
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.7" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

All the Savage Wit Fit to Print (and then some ... that is not)

A great little compendium filled with several centuries of saws, wit, adages and one-liners for those like myself "into comedy and wit." They are especially appropriate for those in search of the perfect "one liners" to add to a speech, or to keep an annoying acquaintance at bay, or as a "comeback" to sharp underhanded but oblique attacks. It would be (reverse) sexist to say that women seem to have the sharpest tongues in the arsenal of the armory of the verbal arts, but if one judges by this book, it must be true. So I'll just be "politically incorrect" and "a (reverse) sexist," and say so: These adages and one liners, strung out across history, are not just funny, but they are, just as the book describes them, simply wicked, no! savage, devious, and pure evil. That is to say, delicious. Five stars

Hillarious

I bought this book as a gift and have since purchased a copy for myself. The wit is superb. Fabulous!