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“But I don’t go to Loehmann’s as much. They have communal dressing rooms, and now that I’m recognized I’d just as soon not be checked out in my underwear.”
-“Today” show’s Katie Couric, on her penchant for shopping outlet stores
“Get lost.”
-Tonya Harding, in response to a $2 million offer for her to join the All Japan Women’s Professional Wrestling Association
“I’m a trash bag of a woman. I’m vulgar. I’m insane. I’m strange. I’m just a weird, twisted creature.”
-actress Jamie Lee Curtis, on how most of her acting roles are incongruous with her real personality
“(They) are a novelty, like the Chippendales (dancers). But they don’t advance women’s rights at all. They just perpetuate the same patriarchal, sexist thinking.”
-Diane Welsh, head of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, on the new wave of TV beefcake ads, including a Diet Pepsi spot showing women ogling a shirtless construction worker
“I thought I would look uglier. I was no glamor queen, but I was cute. I had a body on me. I don’t have hardly any hair on my legs, so I didn’t need much of a wax job.”
-actor Wesley Snipes, on playing a drag queen in the upcoming film “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar”
“According to my mom, I’m such a big shot that she’s threatening to have her uterus bronzed.”
-filmmaker Steven Spielberg