Chapter One: If You Can't Say Anything Nice"You're not a woman. You're a disease!" -Mike Connors, "Where Love Has Gone" (1964)
"I thought you were a woman--but you're nothing but a career." -Sterling Hayden to Bette Davis, "The Star" (1952)
"You're like some fancy kind of disease. I had it once--now I'm immune." -John Ireland to Joan Crawford, "Queen Bee" (1955)
"Floozy! Floozy! Floozy!" -Carmen Miranda to Cobina Wright, "Week-End in Havana" (1941)
"Usually, one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature." -John Gielgud, "Arthur" (1981)
"Look, if you think you're gonna get back in my panties, forget it. There's one asshole in there already." -Kathleen Turner, "Crimes of Passion" (1984)
"Anne Schuyler's in the Blue Book. You're not even in the phone book." -Edmund Breese, "Platinum Blonde" (1931)
"You, you're forty-two. There are many good minutes left for you." -Milton Berle to Eleanor Parker, "The Oscar" (1960)
"You probably haven't had a good lay in years. Your legs have been together longer than the Lennon Sisters." -Bette Midler, "Stella" (1990)
"You know something, Hank? You're 90% man and 10% rat!" -Lana Turner, "Love Has Many Faces" (1965)
"The stork that brought you must have been a vulture." -Ann Sheridan, "Torrid Zone" (1940)
"You have the touch of a love-starved cobra." -Monty Woolley, "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1941)
"As long as they've got sidewalks, you've got a job." -Joan Blondell, "Footlight Parade" (1933)
"You're still a little shop girl from San Francisco. You should've stayed on the other side of the counter." -Constance Bennett to Lana Turner, "Madame X" (1966)
"There areonly two things I dislike about you--your face." -Elizabeth Taylor to Kim Novak, "The Mirror Crack'd" (1980)
Chapter Two: Bette
"Sister number one" (Bette Davis): "For someone who just buried her husband this morning, you don't seem very upset.""Sister number two" (also Bette Davis): "Phony mourning makes me sick!" -Bette Davis, "Dead Ringer" (1964)
"I detest cheap sentiment." -Bette Davis, "All About Eve" (1