She bellies up to the gourmet cracker-barrel and delivers laid-back wisdom with the serenity of a down-home Buddha who has discovered that stool softeners really work. - - - Florence King (about Molly Ivins)
She is a lady short on looks, absolutely deprived of any dress sense, has a figure like a Jurassic monster . . . very greedy when it comes to loot, no tact and wants to upstage everyone else. - - - Sir Nicholas Fairbairn (about Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York)
A cross between an aardvark and an albino rat. - - - John Simon (about Barbra Streisand)
"Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the." - - - Mary McCarthy (about Lillian Hellman)"
That is really the best insult ever, at least about a writer. And that commie Hellman deserved it. Great you've included it here.
A man after my own heart