Forget scratching and hair-pulling: once a girl gets past the age of eight, she knows her deadliest weapon is her tongue. Women's Wicked Wit is a selection of women's most acerbic comments on life, chock-full of quotations from Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Tallulah Bankhead, Hillary Clinton, Bette Davis, George Eliot, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Germaine Greer, Rita Hayworth, Erica Jong, Madonna, Katherine Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Parker, Dolly Parton, Joan Rivers, Bessie Smith, Margaret Thatcher, Edith Wharton, Oprah Winfrey, 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, from birth to burial, romance to revenge, and money to mortality. The whole proves that when it comes to cutting remarks, the female of the species is indeed deadlier than the male.
All the Savage Wit Fit to Print (and then some ... that is not)
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
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
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I bought this book as a gift and have since purchased a copy for myself. The wit is superb. Fabulous!
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