“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”

—  Joan Rivers

As quoted in Funny Ladies (2001), by B. Adler, p. 147

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American comedian, actress, and television host 1933–2014

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