Gail Parent Quotes

#1. Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

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#2. How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting ... old? If I'm ... old, then what is she?

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#3. She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

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#4. When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

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#5. The first thing I did when I made the decision to kill myself was to stop dieting. Let them dig a wider hole.

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#6. Don't we realize we're a business, we single girls are? Every building that goes up in Manhattan has more than fifty percent efficiency apartments ... for the one million girls who have very little use for them.

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#7. Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.

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#8. Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

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#9. In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold.

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#10. Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

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