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
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You're only as good as your last haircut.
wine average ideas
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
funny travel new-york
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
new-york directors admission
I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
life children smart
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
mom baby children
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
stars two wish
My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.
new-york jersey great-things
The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
girl gay boys
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian.
summer winter persons
Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
drug unnecessary consciousness
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
culture influence homosexual
If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.
life children food
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
healthy looks opinion
Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.