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Frances Ann Lebowitz (born October 27, 1950) is an American author, public speaker, and occasional actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the 1970s and 1980s New York art scene.
United States Actresses Authors Essayists Humorists Also known as: Fran Liebowitz, Lebowitz, Fran
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Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.
Social Studies (1981)
Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.
Social Studies (1981)
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
Social Studies (1981)
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Social Studies (1981)
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
Social Studies (1981)
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Social Studies (1981)
I doubt there’s ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
Social Studies (1981)
Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and eventual disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens.
Social Studies (1981)
There they were, and there was the rest of this wicked world, too – intact, unchanged, unjudged, unsaved, unended. There was nothing for it then but they may flee Harmony. There was not one thing left for them to stay here for, except maybe extreme embarrassment and profound shame.
I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive — you are leaking.
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