29 Quotes by Bess Myerson

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

I really don't like talking about diets.

I’m like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

I’ve lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don’t want them to invade my own privacy.

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

I don’t look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

Everybody asks me, ‘So, what are you doing now?’ Why must I be doing something? All my life I’ve been doing something. All my life I’ve been doing. For now, I’m being – being quiet, being grateful.

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.