“I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”

—  Joan Rivers

As quoted in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2003), by R. Byrne, 94

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American comedian, actress, and television host 1933–2014

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