Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong -… — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life… — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy. — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful… — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my… — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art. — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive. — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time. — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
