• “I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.” – Norman O. Brown

• “Okay, so God made man first, but doesn’t everyone make a rough draft before they make a masterpiece?” – Courtney Huston

• “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” – Erma Bombeck

• “How happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not. ” – H.L. Mencken

• “There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.” – Mae West

• “To keep your character intact, you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.” – Katharine Hepburn

• “I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.” – Margaret Thatcher

To follow-up on last month’s post of memorable quotations taken from my page-a-day calendar (which thus far has an overrepresentation of thoughts from Marilyn Monroe and Coco Chanel), here are a few more gems:

• “If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?” – Anonymous

• “When women go wrong, men go right after them.” – Mae West

• “People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do for a husband or a wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow room for growth.” – Erma Bombeck

• “Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.” – Judith Stone

And though I don’t want to disrespect the sentiment of International Women’s Day, I found it too ironic that of all days, I came across this definition in this month’s Alberta Venture magazine today:

• glass cliff – an important project or senior job given to a woman with a high risk of failure (cf. glass ceiling, e.g. Rona Ambrose)