Gail Parent Quotations

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation ...

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.

Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

the first thing I did when I made the decision to kill myself was to stop dieting. Let them dig a wider hole.

In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold.

Don't we realize we're a business, we single girls are? Every building that goes up in Manhattan has more than fifty percent efficiency apartments . . . for the one million girls who have very little use for them.