You can't be beautiful and hate because hate is a corroding disease and affects the way you look. ... You can't hide it - ever. It shows in your eyes…

- Bess Myerson

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

- Bess Myerson

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

- Bess Myerson

I really don't like talking about diets.

- Bess Myerson

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

- Bess Myerson

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 man to come and…

- Bess Myerson

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 on the side-lines.

- Bess Myerson

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

- Bess Myerson

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

- Bess Myerson