Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz
Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitzis an American author and public speaker. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEssayist
Date of Birth27 October 1950
CityMorristown, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
running phones looks
If food did not exist it would be well-nigh impossible to get certain types off the phone, as one would be unable to say, 'Look, I've got to run but let's have dinner sometime soon.'
girl rich waitress
I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.
travel women food
If you're going to America, bring your own food.
funny beauty beautiful
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
country democracy unions
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
zero jobs mean
There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money and know that by the end of the day, I would have money.
children literature serious
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
airports hotel-lobby freedom-of-speech
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
dog animal pet
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
hate lazy i-hate
I'm very lazy, I hate to work.
book writing trying
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
subway preference
I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
teenager law interesting
If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any circumstances attempt to alleviate this situation by developing an interesting personality. An interesting personality, is, in an adult, insufferable. In a teenager it is frequently punishable by law.
jobs hate i-hate
I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.