54 Quotes by Karen Abbott

The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn good at it he gladly would've given her fifteen more. So this story got me thinking, who was Gypsy Rose Lee? Who could possibly take the simple act of peeling off a glove and make it so riveting that one might be compelled to watch this for a full half-hour? So I began researching, and I came across a series of articles from the year 1940 about Gypsy in Life magazine.

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

There is nudity, of course striptease is an essential component of burlesque but it’s much more complex and intelligent than a display of nudity for nudity itself. And its often laugh-out-loud funny.

As one prominent obstetrician put it, “Doctors are gentlemen, and gentlemen’s hands are clean.

If Lady Gaga and Dorothy Parker had a secret love child, it would’ve been Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy arrived for opening nights at the Met wearing a full-length cape made entirely of orchids, while Lady Gaga shows up wearing a full-length cloak made of meat.

Why the devil they have to put that ‘girlie girlie’ tea party description every time they tell anything a professional woman does, is more than I can see.

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I’m afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

A Republican is a man who wants you to go t’church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.

Frank, as he preferred to be called, always believed that God was with him, protecting him even during – perhaps especially during – his transgressions.