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
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.
lying believe hard-work
I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.
order apartment
To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
children designer-clothes literature
Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.