29 Quotes by Bess Myerson

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

Men go after me, and I choose among them.

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

You cannot be beautiful and hate.

You can't be beautiful and hate because hate is a corroding disease and affects the way you look. ... You can't hide it - ever. It shows in your eyes. It warps your expression. It affects your character, your personality.

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.