Out of the Mouths of Babes: Quips and Quotes from Wildly Witty Women

Autumn Stephens

Conari Press, Mar 1, 2001 - Social Science - 296 pages

Humorous, startling, and shocking quotations from fierce and fiery women fill the pages of this sassy little book. Out of the Mouths of Babes continues the tradition started by author Autumn Stephens in her books Wild Women and Wild Words from Wild Women. There is no lack of confidence and sense of self in these women's sayings. More than 150 outrageously entertaining quotes present mostly well-known women in their outspoken glory. Organized into sections with titles like Gifted Gabbers, Liberated Lovers, and Brazen Biddies, Out of the Mouths of Babes is a perfect reminder to all women that the feminine spirit is alive and well!

Contents

• III: 5
• IV: 19
• V: 35
• VI: 47
• VII: 63
• VIII: 83
• X: 99
• XI: 113
• XII: 129
• XIII: 143
• XIV: 153
• XV: 171
• XVI: 185
• XVII: 197
• XVIII: 211
• XIX: 225
• XX: 239
• XXI: 251
• XXIV: 263

About the author

Autumn Stephens was born in a New Mexico mining community whose population began to dwindle shortly after her arrival (though she swears this was mere coincidence) and finally faded from the map altogether. She spent the rest of her childhood in Eugene, Oregon. Initially, she intended to become a psychologist, but when she noticed that her introductory psych classes at Stanford University tended to focus on the behavior of rats rather than that of human beings, she signed up as a creative writing major instead. During several subsequent years as an after-hours creative writer/daytime wage-slave, Stephens worked as a medical coder, a phone sex script writer, a composer of fraudulent Tarot prognostications, and something called a "special investigator" for the State Bar of California. More than any other experience, however, her stint as an old-fashioned legal secretary (among other absurdities, the job involved the daily composition of a heart-healthy salad for a high-maintenance male boss) honed the deliciously snide feminist sensibility which informs Stephens' writing today. (Well, okay, growing up more or less concurrently with the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s helped too.) Stephens is the author of the popular "Wild Women" books published by Conari Press, including Wild Women, Wild Women in the White House, Wild Words from Wild Women, Loose Cannons, Drama Queens, and Out of the Mouths of Babes. Stephens also freelances for magazines, reviews women's writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, and enjoys an entirely attorney-free lifestyle. Currently, she lives in Berkeley, California--a city which she would like better were it not for an uncharacteristically restrictive ordinance against raising miniature pigs in one's backyard. Her hobbies are sleeping and reading trashy celebrity magazines.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Out of the Mouths of Babes: Quips and Quotes from Wildly Witty Women; Quips, Quotes, and Unforgettable Wildly Witty Women; Uppity and ever-so-wild women series; Wild Women Series
• Author: Autumn Stephens
• Editor: Autumn Stephens
• Compiled by: Autumn Stephens
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Conari Press, 2001
• ISBN: 1573245585, 9781573245586
• Length: 296 pages
• Subjects: Humor / Form / Anecdotes & Quotations; Reference / Quotations; Religion / Inspirational; Social Science / Women's Studies