Ann Landers
Ann Landers
Ann Landers was a pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer in 1955. For 56 years, the Ask Ann Landers syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America. Due to this popularity, "Ann Landers," though fictional, became something of a national institution and cultural icon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 July 1918
CitySioux City, IA
CountryUnited States of America
Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.
Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.
You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.
Marriage is not a reform school.
guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .
More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.
No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.
Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.