"I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor."

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“I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes—and six months later you have to start all over again.”

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“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”

“I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.”

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