Gloria Vanderbilt quote: "A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people."

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the val...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it in...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetit...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, be...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are a...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presen...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?
GLORIA VANDERBILT

He had the greatest gift of all, the ability to love without fear.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

We would have second thoughts about using her again.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the valu...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

To be happy--one must find one's bliss
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you
GLORIA VANDERBILT

We would have second thoughts about using Kate Moss again. We weren't aware of any issues with Kate ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't k...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly wri...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always rea...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I believe in marriage and fidelity.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it alw...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going t...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

Everything in life is elusive.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, fo...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I th...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

The heart of another is a dark forest.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT

I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT

I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
AMY VANDERBILT

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If w...
AMY VANDERBILT

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularl...
AMY VANDERBILT

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior....
AMY VANDERBILT

It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks...
AMY VANDERBILT

We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and po...
AMY VANDERBILT

but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
AMY VANDERBILT

They just looked up and there she was.
AMY VANDERBILT

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not mere...
AMY VANDERBILT

When I want to buy up any politician I always find the anti-monopolists the most purchasable -- they...
WILLIAM VANDERBILT

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
AMY VANDERBILT

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
AMY VANDERBILT

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
AMY VANDERBILT

I think it's safe to say that Logan Pass probably won't be open to through traffic probably for a fe...
AMY VANDERBILT

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power ...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT

And with fee demonstration funding, Glacier has been able to put a lot of funding into making it mor...
AMY VANDERBILT

Glacier has historically been a hiker's park. And providing wheel-chair access is another aspect to ...
AMY VANDERBILT

One face to the world, another at home makes for misery
AMY VANDERBILT

It's pretty cliffy there. I don't know how steep it was. It may have been a cliff, because it took f...
AMY VANDERBILT

We will have personnel working on this all weekend, ... The boulder is going to require blasting to ...
AMY VANDERBILT

Our crews have reported that someone did make it up to Logan Pass and they described water running d...
AMY VANDERBILT

They're worried about potential under-cutting of the road surface.
AMY VANDERBILT

What we know, ... is that two hikers on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, at about 10 a.m., had a close en...
AMY VANDERBILT

We received 4.4 inches of rain, compared to a 10-year mean of 2.14 inches.
AMY VANDERBILT

Glacier has historically been a hiker's park. And providing wheel-chair access is another aspect to ...
AMY VANDERBILT

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
AMY VANDERBILT

Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing &...
JAMES VANDERBILT

The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might ...
TOM VANDERBILT

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
GLORIA STEINEM

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for ...
GLORIA STEINEM

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered que...
GLORIA GAITHER

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wo...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.
GLORIA REUBEN

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
GLORIA STEINEM

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
GLORIA STEINEM

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage ...
GLORIA GAYNOR

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president?...
GLORIA STEINEM

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
GLORIA STEINEM

Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from ...
GLORIA STEINEM

If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ...
GLORIA STEINEM

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
GLORIA STEINEM

The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Po...
GLORIA STEINEM

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
GLORIA STEINEM

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
GLORIA STEINEM

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there'...
GLORIA STEINEM

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hea...
GLORIA STEINEM

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling...
GLORIA STEINEM

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
GLORIA STEINEM

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar...
GLORIA STEINEM

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but to...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM

Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrumen...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity ...
GLORIA SWANSON

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywo...
GLORIA SWANSON

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy ...
GLORIA STEINEM

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
GLORIA STEINEM

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle...
GLORIA STEINEM

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEM

Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I ...
GLORIA PITZER

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
GLORIA STEINEM

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
GLORIA STEINEM

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after a...
GLORIA STEINEM

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible ...
GLORIA STEINEM

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, wh...
GLORIA WHELAN

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEM

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tom...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations...
GLORIA STEINEM

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
GLORIA STEINEM

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some g...
GLORIA STEINEM

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
GLORIA SWANSON

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a co...
GLORIA STEINEM

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be d...
GLORIA STEINEM

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply...
GLORIA STEINEM

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us kn...
GLORIA STEINEM

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step ...
GLORIA STEINEM

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
GLORIA STEINEM

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
GLORIA SWANSON

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Toys tossed on the floor
Hand prints on the wall
Slamming of the door
And footsteps down t...
GLORIA BABB

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
GLORIA STEINEM

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his wo...
GLORIA STEINEM

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
GLORIA STEINEM

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...
GLORIA STEINEM

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
GLORIA STEINEM

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
GLORIA NAYLOR

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
GLORIA STEINEM

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
GLORIA STEINEM

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry
GLORIA STEINEM

Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about in...
GLORIA STEINEM

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are...
GLORIA STEINEM

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as eit...
GLORIA STEINEM

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporat...
GLORIA STEINEM

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with tha...
GLORIA STEINEM

'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at...
GLORIA STEINEM

There's no shortage of great young activists.
GLORIA STEINEM

Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by...
GLORIA STEINEM

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.
GLORIA STEINEM

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.
GLORIA ESTEFAN

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
GLORIA ESTEFAN

The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and...
GLORIA STEINEM

The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
GLORIA STEINEM

I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But th...
GLORIA STEINEM

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
GLORIA STEINEM

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because m...
GLORIA STEINEM

I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, t...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
GLORIA STUART

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
GLORIA ALLRED

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn...
GLORIA STUART

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone c...
GLORIA STEINEM

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
GLORIA SWANSON

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
GLORIA NAYLOR

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of...
GLORIA SWANSON

The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in way...
GLORIA REUBEN

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me l...
GLORIA WHELAN

I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation ...
GLORIA STEINEM

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
GLORIA SWANSON

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting...
GLORIA STEINEM

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in whic...
GLORIA STEINEM

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support...
GLORIA ALLRED

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.
GLORIA NAYLOR

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will yo...
GLORIA WHELAN

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
GLORIA STEINEM

We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern reall...
GLORIA STEINEM

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more...
GLORIA STEINEM

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey He...
GLORIA STEINEM

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this cou...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's...
GLORIA STEINEM

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and al...
GLORIA ALLRED

Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it ...
GLORIA STEINEM

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
GLORIA ESTEFAN

I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligatio...
GLORIA ALLRED

I think I sound like Barry White.
GLORIA GAYNOR

The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
GLORIA STEINEM

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
GLORIA SWANSON

I think everyone envisions me sitting at Alexandre's all day, picking out beautiful clothes from...
GLORIA GUINNESS

Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they...
GLORIA STEINEM

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
GLORIA STEINEM

The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
GLORIA STEINEM

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEM

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.

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A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.

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