Joyce Brothers
Joyce Brothers
Joyce Diane Brotherswas an American psychologist, television personality and columnist, who wrote a daily newspaper advice column from 1960 to 2013. In 1955, she became the only woman ever to win the top prize on the American game show The $64,000 Question, answering questions on the topic of boxing, which was suggested as a stunt by the show's producers. In 1958, she presented a television show on which she dispensed psychological advice, pioneering the field. She wrote a column for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth20 September 1927
CountryUnited States of America
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.
The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything.
They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.
Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.
Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.
Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.
A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.
If you change nothing, nothing changes.
Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.
If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.
It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.
Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.
... no matter how great the differences are between men and women, the differences among members of the same sex are usually equally great if not greater.