For the Ladies.... <object data="Other/alwayslove.mid" type="application/x-mplayer2" width="0" height="0"> <param name="filename" value="Other/alwayslove.mid"> <param name="playcount" value="5"> <param name="autostart" value="1"> </object> <style type="text/css"> body {color: navy; background-color: #FFCCCC; background-image: url('graphics/bgJoy1Rose.jpg'); } a {color: blue;} a:visited {color: maroon;} a:active {color: red;} </style> </head> <BODY> This page is graphics intense. Please be patient while they load. For the Ladies.......... <table border="4" bordercolorlight="#FFCFCE" bordercolordark="#FF97A0"> <tr> <td><a name="ladies"><IMG SRC="graphics/artJEBDrkKnight.jpg" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="406" BORDER="0" ALT="artJEBDrkKnight.jpg - 60794 Bytes"></a></td> </tr> </table> "A Dark Knight" by Jonathon Earl Bowser <A href="http://www.jonathonart.com/" target="_blank"> <IMG SRC="graphics/banJonBowser.jpg" WIDTH="460" HEIGHT="60" BORDER="0" ALT="banJonBowser.jpg - 11896 Bytes"></A> <A href="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/siteindex.html">Click HERE for a complete Site Index</A> <TABLE width="100%" BORDER="0"> <TR> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/index.html">Homepage</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/earthsongs.html">Earth Songs</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/spiritfaith.html" >Spirituality & Faith</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/love.html">Love</A> </TD> <TD> </td> <TD>Poems on this Page:</TD></TR> <TR><TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/nature.html">Nature & Wildlife</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/humanity.html">Humanity</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/life.html">Life</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/parting.html">Parting</A> </TD> <TD> </td> <TD><a href="#wildandcrazy">Wild and Crazy</a></TD></TR> <TR><TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/lookingback.html">Looking Back</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/authors.html">Poems By Other Authors</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/potpourri.html">Potpourri</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/bio.html">About Me</A> </TD> <TD> </td> <TD><a href="#choicemine">The Choice is Mine</a></TD></TR> <TR><TD><A href="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/family.html">Family</A> </TD> <TD><A href="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/fantasy.html">Fantasy</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/links.html">Links</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://bluesky40.com/books.html">Books</A> </TD> <TD> </td> <TD><a href="#iamwoman">I Am Woman</a></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/haiku.html">Haiku</A></TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/meander.html">Meandering</A></TD> <td><A href="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/funpage.html">FunPages</A></td> <TD>  </TD> <TD> </td> <TD><a href="#iammyown">I Am My Own</a></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <hr width="50%" align="Center" size="1"> <table width="80%"><tr><td>Well, now, I've been a Lady in one form or another for over 60 years now, so I suppose I am as qualified as anyone to create a page For the Ladies... (:D I started out as a Baby Girl, went to Toddlerette, to Tomboy-girl, toTeenager; Working Girl; Young Married; Mother (with all attendant jobs); Housewife (with all attendant jobs); Divorced Mother (meaning Mother-Father-Housekeeper-WageEarner-TaxiDriver-Confidante-Jailkeeper!!); Woman Entrepreneur; DatingWoman (when all the kids were grown); Lover and Friend again (when I found my SoulMate); Internet Geekess and Website Builderess; and Grandmother. And believe me, I have not covered it all!!!! (:D I have not added the woman suffixes to many of these words because of feminism (although I am feminist), but because I am proud to be a woman!! And all of the other titles and responsibilities that go with it. I am not addressing all the men who are compassionate, loving, hard-working,and many of whom now support and raise their families alone, too, because this is not a page for the men. It is for US!!</td></tr></table> I Am Woman..... <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> <a name="wildandcrazy">Wild and Crazy Women</a> I read she's climbed the mountain's height, or rode the wild, white-topped waves, soared through the sky on a seated kite or plumbed the unknown depths of caves. She drives the cars at breakneck speed and guides the horses thoroughbred on tracks that always were men's deeds, but now they bow to woman's tread. And me?? I've ventured none of these, but I have dared to love another; and I have wandered through the paths unknown and hard to be a mother! So goes the sayings - to each her own; one woman's trash is another's treasure. A wild and crazy woman's life is left for each their own to measure. © Joyce P. Hale <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> <a name="choicemine">The Choice Is Mine</a> I can weep and whine and pout, cry crocodile tears and moan, about the way you treated me and left me all alone. Or I can call my friends and say - let's go out and dine - or see a movie, take a walk...the final choice is mine. If people treat me badly, and some are rude to me, I can answer with the same, or choose to better be. Instead of passing on the frown, I'd choose to show a smile; the choice is mine, so I would opt to go that extra mile. If someone else is prettier, or has a better home, or has a lot more money, or heartbreaks have they none - It should not be my task in life to envy someone's way - my choice should be to mind my own, and work an honest day. We all have roads that we may choose, some rocky, narrow, steep - some straight and wide and all down-hill - but what we sow, we reap. Now if we plant dissension and inequities condone, our lot will come back as the same - the choice is yours alone. © Joyce P. Hale <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> <IMG SRC="graphics/WtrflWVAfrm.jpg" WIDTH="170" HEIGHT="220" BORDER="0" ALT="WtrflWVAfrm.jpg - 13484 Bytes"> <a name="iamwoman">I Am Woman</a>..... "I am Woman," yells the crowd - Stand up straight, stand up proud! "Hear me roar!" - the crowd goes wild! Let not complacency beguile. So we march a different tune than those from whom we quit their wombs. How far we've come - fight all the way - how far to go - a step each day. What have we gained? The right of choice in many things; to vote our voice. Many of us choose single life; many choose to be mother and wife. Lots of our choices change around - no longer are we "custom" bound. There are many who aren't "here," they may not roar, they seldom cheer; but they are with us just the same - It's just that we don't know their names. Joyce Petrosky-Hale - © 1997 <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> <TABLE BORDER="5" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#CCCCCC" BORDERCOLORDARK="#003300"> <TR> <TD><IMG SRC="graphics/spiderwebMarcs72.jpg" WIDTH="288" HEIGHT="255" BORDER="0" ALT="spiderwebMarcs72.jpg - 66203 Bytes"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <a name="iammyown">I Am My Own</a> I am my own - there's only me; I can be what I want to be. The sky is blue, and clouds are white; sometimes I'm wrong and sometimes right. Sunshine is warm and grass is green; I sing a song and dream a dream. The breezes blow, the moon comes out; I wonder sometime what it's all about. For skies can darken soon to grey; and Time can steal my dreams away. A cloud can hide the sunshine bright; and friends may disappear from sight. As lack of water turns grass brown, so lack of love can get me down. But clouds will always travel on, eventually I'll see the sun. Eventually my heart will smile, and I'll be happy for a while. I am my own - but God is there to help me all my burdens share. © Joyce P. Hale <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> <table align="center" border="3" bordercolorlight="#9999FF" bordercolordark="#9900FF"> <tr> <td width="600"> ******************Great Sayings*************** Inside every older person is a younger person - wondering what the hell happened. -Cora Harvey Armstrong .............................. Quotations from women about women . . . . . . . The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. -Helen Hayes (at 73) .............................. I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. -Janette Barber- .............................. Whoever thought up the word "Mammogram"? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone. -Jan King- ............................... A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!" -Linda Ellerbee- ............................... Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. -Lily Tomlin- ............................... You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears. -Geri Jewell- ............................... A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car. -Carrie Snow- ............................... Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. -Laurie Kuslansky- ............................... My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. -Erma Bombeck- ............................... Old age ain't no place for sissies. -Bette Davis- ............................... A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't. -Rhonda Hansome- ............................... The phrase "working mother" is redundant. -Jane Sellman- ................................ Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows. -Jennifer Unlimited- ............................... Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. -Charlotte Whitton- ............................... Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. -Caryn Leschen- ............................... I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. -Jennifer Unlimited- ................................ If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. -Catherine Aird- ................................ When I was young, I was put in a school for retarded kids for two years before they realized I actually had a hearing loss. And they called ME slow! -Kathy Buckley- ................................ I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . and I'm also not blonde. -Dolly Parton- ................................ You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. - Erica Jong- ................................ If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them. -Sue Grafton- ................................ When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. -Elayne Boosler- ................................ Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. -Maryon Pearson ................................ In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man - if you want anything done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher- ................................ I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. -Gloria Steinem- ............................... I never married, because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late every night. -Marie Corelli- ................................ If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck? -Linda Ellerbee- ................................. I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. -Zsa Zsa Gabor- ................................. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. -Eleanor Roosevelt- ................................. Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out, but I can usually shut the bitch up with cookies. - Unknown - ................................. </td> </tr> </table> <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes">  <CENTER> <A href=http://daremore.com/quotes.html target=_TOP> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="http://daremore.com/quote.gif" WIDTH="441" HEIGHT="92" ALT="Daremore Quotes"></A> </CENTER>  <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> Want to visit some woman's sites? 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Visit <A href="http://www.alternativemedicine.com/" target="_blank">Alternative Healing </A> ******************************************** If you know of a site which would be of great interest and/or help to women, <A href="mailto:skyblu40@earthlink.net">e-mail me</A> with the URL, and I will check it out for listing here. <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> Copyright © 1998 through 2008 Joyce Petrosky-Hale. Poetry and graphics contained on these pages were created by me, or are credited or linked to their creators or are, to the best of my knowledge, public domain property or purchased clipart/images. Please let me know if any of them need credit! Please do NOT copy poetry or graphics from this site without my permission. <A href="mailme:skyblu40@earthlink.net"><IMG SRC="graphics/EmRoses.jpg" WIDTH="75" HEIGHT="50" BORDER="0" ALT="EmRoses.jpg - 1814 Bytes"></A> The middle photo is of a beautiful waterfall along scenic Rt.60 in W.VA. in the autumn of the year. The next photo of the spider webs was taken by my son, Marc. <a href="#ladies">Back to TOP</a> <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg

For the Ladies.... <object data="Other/alwayslove.mid" type="application/x-mplayer2" width="0" height="0"> <param name="filename" value="Other/alwayslove.mid"> <param name="playcount" value="5"> <param name="autostart" value="1"> </object> <style type="text/css"> body {color: navy; background-color: #FFCCCC; background-image: url('graphics/bgJoy1Rose.jpg'); } a {color: blue;} a:visited {color: maroon;} a:active {color: red;} </style> </head> <BODY> This page is graphics intense. Please be patient while they load. For the Ladies.......... <table border="4" bordercolorlight="#FFCFCE" bordercolordark="#FF97A0"> <tr> <td><a name="ladies"><IMG SRC="graphics/artJEBDrkKnight.jpg" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="406" BORDER="0" ALT="artJEBDrkKnight.jpg - 60794 Bytes"></a></td> </tr> </table> "A Dark Knight" by Jonathon Earl Bowser <A href="http://www.jonathonart.com/" target="_blank"> <IMG SRC="graphics/banJonBowser.jpg" WIDTH="460" HEIGHT="60" BORDER="0" ALT="banJonBowser.jpg - 11896 Bytes"></A> <A href="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/siteindex.html">Click HERE for a complete Site Index</A> <TABLE width="100%" BORDER="0"> <TR> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/index.html">Homepage</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/earthsongs.html">Earth Songs</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/spiritfaith.html" >Spirituality & Faith</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/love.html">Love</A> </TD> <TD> </td> <TD>Poems on this Page:</TD></TR> <TR><TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/nature.html">Nature & Wildlife</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/humanity.html">Humanity</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/life.html">Life</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/parting.html">Parting</A> </TD> <TD> </td> <TD><a href="#wildandcrazy">Wild and Crazy</a></TD></TR> <TR><TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/lookingback.html">Looking Back</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/authors.html">Poems By Other Authors</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/potpourri.html">Potpourri</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/bio.html">About Me</A> </TD> <TD> </td> <TD><a href="#choicemine">The Choice is Mine</a></TD></TR> <TR><TD><A href="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/family.html">Family</A> </TD> <TD><A href="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/fantasy.html">Fantasy</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/links.html">Links</A> </TD> <TD><A HREF="http://bluesky40.com/books.html">Books</A> </TD> <TD> </td> <TD><a href="#iamwoman">I Am Woman</a></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/haiku.html">Haiku</A></TD> <TD><A HREF="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/meander.html">Meandering</A></TD> <td><A href="http://legacy.bluesky40.com/funpage.html">FunPages</A></td> <TD>  </TD> <TD> </td> <TD><a href="#iammyown">I Am My Own</a></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <hr width="50%" align="Center" size="1"> <table width="80%"><tr><td>Well, now, I've been a Lady in one form or another for over 60 years now, so I suppose I am as qualified as anyone to create a page For the Ladies... (:D I started out as a Baby Girl, went to Toddlerette, to Tomboy-girl, toTeenager; Working Girl; Young Married; Mother (with all attendant jobs); Housewife (with all attendant jobs); Divorced Mother (meaning Mother-Father-Housekeeper-WageEarner-TaxiDriver-Confidante-Jailkeeper!!); Woman Entrepreneur; DatingWoman (when all the kids were grown); Lover and Friend again (when I found my SoulMate); Internet Geekess and Website Builderess; and Grandmother. And believe me, I have not covered it all!!!! (:D I have not added the woman suffixes to many of these words because of feminism (although I am feminist), but because I am proud to be a woman!! And all of the other titles and responsibilities that go with it. I am not addressing all the men who are compassionate, loving, hard-working,and many of whom now support and raise their families alone, too, because this is not a page for the men. It is for US!!</td></tr></table> I Am Woman..... <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> <a name="wildandcrazy">Wild and Crazy Women</a> I read she's climbed the mountain's height, or rode the wild, white-topped waves, soared through the sky on a seated kite or plumbed the unknown depths of caves. She drives the cars at breakneck speed and guides the horses thoroughbred on tracks that always were men's deeds, but now they bow to woman's tread. And me?? I've ventured none of these, but I have dared to love another; and I have wandered through the paths unknown and hard to be a mother! So goes the sayings - to each her own; one woman's trash is another's treasure. A wild and crazy woman's life is left for each their own to measure. © Joyce P. Hale <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> <a name="choicemine">The Choice Is Mine</a> I can weep and whine and pout, cry crocodile tears and moan, about the way you treated me and left me all alone. Or I can call my friends and say - let's go out and dine - or see a movie, take a walk...the final choice is mine. If people treat me badly, and some are rude to me, I can answer with the same, or choose to better be. Instead of passing on the frown, I'd choose to show a smile; the choice is mine, so I would opt to go that extra mile. If someone else is prettier, or has a better home, or has a lot more money, or heartbreaks have they none - It should not be my task in life to envy someone's way - my choice should be to mind my own, and work an honest day. We all have roads that we may choose, some rocky, narrow, steep - some straight and wide and all down-hill - but what we sow, we reap. Now if we plant dissension and inequities condone, our lot will come back as the same - the choice is yours alone. © Joyce P. Hale <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> <IMG SRC="graphics/WtrflWVAfrm.jpg" WIDTH="170" HEIGHT="220" BORDER="0" ALT="WtrflWVAfrm.jpg - 13484 Bytes"> <a name="iamwoman">I Am Woman</a>..... "I am Woman," yells the crowd - Stand up straight, stand up proud! "Hear me roar!" - the crowd goes wild! Let not complacency beguile. So we march a different tune than those from whom we quit their wombs. How far we've come - fight all the way - how far to go - a step each day. What have we gained? The right of choice in many things; to vote our voice. Many of us choose single life; many choose to be mother and wife. Lots of our choices change around - no longer are we "custom" bound. There are many who aren't "here," they may not roar, they seldom cheer; but they are with us just the same - It's just that we don't know their names. Joyce Petrosky-Hale - © 1997 <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> <TABLE BORDER="5" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#CCCCCC" BORDERCOLORDARK="#003300"> <TR> <TD><IMG SRC="graphics/spiderwebMarcs72.jpg" WIDTH="288" HEIGHT="255" BORDER="0" ALT="spiderwebMarcs72.jpg - 66203 Bytes"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <a name="iammyown">I Am My Own</a> I am my own - there's only me; I can be what I want to be. The sky is blue, and clouds are white; sometimes I'm wrong and sometimes right. Sunshine is warm and grass is green; I sing a song and dream a dream. The breezes blow, the moon comes out; I wonder sometime what it's all about. For skies can darken soon to grey; and Time can steal my dreams away. A cloud can hide the sunshine bright; and friends may disappear from sight. As lack of water turns grass brown, so lack of love can get me down. But clouds will always travel on, eventually I'll see the sun. Eventually my heart will smile, and I'll be happy for a while. I am my own - but God is there to help me all my burdens share. © Joyce P. Hale <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> <table align="center" border="3" bordercolorlight="#9999FF" bordercolordark="#9900FF"> <tr> <td width="600"> ******************Great Sayings*************** Inside every older person is a younger person - wondering what the hell happened. -Cora Harvey Armstrong .............................. Quotations from women about women . . . . . . . The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. -Helen Hayes (at 73) .............................. I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. -Janette Barber- .............................. Whoever thought up the word "Mammogram"? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone. -Jan King- ............................... A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!" -Linda Ellerbee- ............................... Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. -Lily Tomlin- ............................... You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears. -Geri Jewell- ............................... A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car. -Carrie Snow- ............................... Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. -Laurie Kuslansky- ............................... My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. -Erma Bombeck- ............................... Old age ain't no place for sissies. -Bette Davis- ............................... A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't. -Rhonda Hansome- ............................... The phrase "working mother" is redundant. -Jane Sellman- ................................ Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows. -Jennifer Unlimited- ............................... Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. -Charlotte Whitton- ............................... Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. -Caryn Leschen- ............................... I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. -Jennifer Unlimited- ................................ If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. -Catherine Aird- ................................ When I was young, I was put in a school for retarded kids for two years before they realized I actually had a hearing loss. And they called ME slow! -Kathy Buckley- ................................ I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . and I'm also not blonde. -Dolly Parton- ................................ You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. - Erica Jong- ................................ If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them. -Sue Grafton- ................................ When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. -Elayne Boosler- ................................ Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. -Maryon Pearson ................................ In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man - if you want anything done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher- ................................ I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. -Gloria Steinem- ............................... I never married, because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late every night. -Marie Corelli- ................................ If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck? -Linda Ellerbee- ................................. I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. -Zsa Zsa Gabor- ................................. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. -Eleanor Roosevelt- ................................. Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out, but I can usually shut the bitch up with cookies. - Unknown - ................................. </td> </tr> </table> <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes">  <CENTER> <A href=http://daremore.com/quotes.html target=_TOP> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="http://daremore.com/quote.gif" WIDTH="441" HEIGHT="92" ALT="Daremore Quotes"></A> </CENTER>  <IMG SRC="graphics/lineRoses.jpg" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="lineRoses.jpg - 2437 Bytes"> Want to visit some woman's sites? 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