The Ladies' Room

When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake.

Don't worry about tomorrow or let the past ruin today.

Don't waste an opportunity for happiness. Just be wise.

God bless the woman who'd invented air-conditioning. Okay, it might have been a man, but I'll bet you dollars to earthworms that a woman nagged him into it.

I had two choices. I could be bitter, or I could get on with life...Mine had been made...I wasn't going to be bitter.

Guess you never know how much you like the water until the well runs dry, and if I can't have your love unconditionally, then I'll just have to do without it until you grow up.

Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.

She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn't accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else. Then

A true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise she's giving away her power and her crown.

The truth is the truth whether you serve it up plain or top it with chocolate frosting. It's still the truth." "So

I can't say I've been in love with you my whole life. But I can say that I intend to be for the rest of it. I don't even know when it happened, but it did. I can't get you off my mind or out of my heart.

A true lady could weather tragedy and heartache and keep her pride and dignity.

Alone isn’t a bad place to be, especially when it’s the alternative to distrust and unhappiness, but alone brought loneliness as the darkness surrounded me.

For me, food cures everything. Depression. Boredom. Anger. Chocolate cake can take care of ingrown toenails, and potato chips can eradicate acne.

May all the ones ahead be better than those that have already passed.

Deceived wives could purchase a gun, take lessons, and receive a cheating-husband hunting license complete with a big red A label to tie to the man’s zipper after the kill. Open season could be scheduled months in advance to give the husbands a fighting chance. They could hide in refuges or stay home and take their chances at being shot through the living room window as they watched Monday Night Football.

Visualize the end, and start at the beginning.

Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they’re wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they’ll be real, and you’ll be living, not just existing.

Once a mother, always a mother. You don't ever get to quit or retire.

Life was good when I counted my blessings.

My mind went back to Bambi. If there were too many deer, then hunters were given the opportunity to shoot them. Cheating husbands were also a problem in the balance of nature, and there were far too many of them. Why couldn't there be open season on cheating husbands? Deceived wives could purchase a gun, take lessons, and receive a cheating-husband hunting license complete with a big red A label to tie to the man's zipper after the kill. Open season could be scheduled months in advance to give the husbands a fighting chance. They could hide in refuges or stay home and take their chances at being shot through the living room window as they watched Monday Night Football.

Alone isn't a bad place to be, especially when it's the alternative to distrust and unhappiness, but

They didn't want to get too close to the crazy woman, since scientists hadn't yet proved whether crazy, like stupid, is inherited or contagious. The

J. A. Jance is a favorite.

what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn’t accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else.

Let her live in ignorance. They say it’s bliss.

Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they’ll be real, and you’ll be living, not just existing.

They didn’t want to get too close to the crazy woman, since scientists hadn’t yet proved whether crazy, like stupid, is inherited or contagious.