Joyce Brothers
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.Collection: Dating
I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.Collection: Work
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.Collection: Marriage
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.Collection: Relationship
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.Collection: Marriage
The best proof of love is trust.Collection: Trust
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.Collection: Thankful
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.Collection: Best
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.Collection: Trust
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.Collection: Success
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.Collection: Failure
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.Collection: Money
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.Collection: Communication
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.Collection: Relationship
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.
Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.
The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.
For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.
There is such a thing as bad publicity.
I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.
Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.
Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.
I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.
The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.
Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.Collection: Inspirational
The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything.Collection: Mistake
Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.Collection: Life
If you change nothing, nothing changes.Collection: Things Change
When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.Collection: Forgiving
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.Collection: Dream
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.Collection: Success
There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.Collection: Inspirational
When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.Collection: Life
When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.Collection: Humor
My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.Collection: Marriage
If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.Collection: Inspirational
In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.Collection: Inspirational
They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.Collection: Money
The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.Collection: Want
A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.Collection: Food
Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly.Collection: Sex
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.Collection: Anger
When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.Collection: Love
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.Collection: Gratitude