“Being a Heartless Bitch is never easy. This is going to be painful for you. It isn’t all spewing poisoned pen notes about your victimized past, sure THAT is easy. What’s hard is building a life, and changing yourself. Not him. You. Have. To. Change.” — Auntie Dote
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there’s a wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. — Erma Bombeck
“Warning: Frequent visits to HBI has been reported to make our male readers 15%-75% sexier. Forget viagra boys, just get a spine and that’s all the erectile help you’ll need.” — AUNTIE DOTE
“I’m starting to think it can’t be Head-Up-Ass Syndrome, because there’s got to be more oxygen and more light up even the flabbiest ass than could account for such rampant and long-lasting self-abnegation.” — Instgatrix
“You know, I really DO hate boneheads, but bonehead WOMEN have a SPECIAL place in the crack of my ass.” — Instgatrix
“A real HB would do everything s/he can not to waste this lesson, because when the lesson is wasted, That Bitch Called Life will only use a bigger hammer next time around.” — Instgatrix
“Because, you know, there’s one thing you don’t want. It’s a woman with her finger on the button who isn’t getting laid.” — Laine Hanson (played by Joan Allen in The Contender)
“Sometimes you have to learn how to open your mouth for more than just giving head.” — JadeSyren (to a wanna-be HBI applicant)
So far I’ve had the good fortune of beating you to it
“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.” — Bette Davis
Life’s a bitch
“I am ‘too fiery’. yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.” — Margaret Fuller
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” — Maya Angelou
“All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that’s all. So I am heartless.” — Greta Garbo, from the movie Inspiration (1931)
“People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me.”
“If you think you are too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito” — Anita Roddick
“What worries me the most is that most men are so weak. Because of that they act like they don’t care and like machos – because they are too fragile inside. They’re scared of confrontation and afraid of so many things.” — Salma Hayek
“My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it’s very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do. ” — Ani DiFranco
“Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn’t ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.” — Anna Quindlen
“What happened to the feminist revolution? We thought we could have it all, but instead we ended up DOING it all.” — Helen S.
“You can all get over over your fear of looking like the bad guy, and have the uncomfortable “break-up conversation,” because avoiding that, is what makes you the bad guy.” — Carrie – Sex and the City
“Couldn’t, wouldn’t, mustn’t, shouldn’t – these are the laments of the spineless. I can and I will, but not because I must or I should!” — Vicki B.