Funny shopping quotes to help you survive the insanity that is the holiday season.

1. “I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.” -Tammy Faye Bakker
2. “Shopping is better than sex. If you’re not satisfied after shopping you can make an exchange for something you really like.” -Adrienne Gusoff
3. “Wal-mart… do they like, make walls there?” -Paris Hilton
4. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” -Will Smith
5. “We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.” -Henry Youngman
6. “The quickest way to get to know a woman is to go shopping with her.” -Marcelene Cox
7. “Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another checkout line.” -Ann Landers
8. “A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.” -Franklin P. Jones
9. “Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” -Bo Derek
10. “The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.” -Erma Bombeck
11. “I haven’t reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.” -Ilie Nastase
12. “The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried.” -Mignon McLaughlin
13. “The other line moves faster.” -Etorre
14. “Buying something on sale is a special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it’s worth to me. I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it. I could spill something on it and then how would I replace it for that amount of money?” -Rita Rudner
15. “When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.” -Elayne Boosler
16. “If men liked shopping, they’d call it research.” -Cynthia Nelms
17. “Is there more to life than shopping?” -Amanda Ford
18. “I rationalize shop. I buy a dress because I need change for gum.” -Rita Rudner
19. “I bet deep down you still wish your mom would take you clothes shopping every August for the new school year.” -Bridget Willard
20. “I like my money right where I can see it: Hanging in my closet.” -Carrie Bradshaw

What are your favorite shopping quotes?

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Inspiring quotes on the fine art of fitting out.

1. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” -Rick Warren
2. “Honestly, if you don’t fit in then you’re probably doing the right thing.” -Lights Poxleitner
3. “Maybe it’s wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.” -Paul McHugh
4. “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” -e.e. cummings
5. “This above all: to thine own self be true.” -William Shakespeare
6. “He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.” -Raymond Hull
7. “The best you can be at any given moment is yourself.” -Elizabeth Alraune
8. “About all you can do in life is be who you are.” -Rita Mae Brown
9. “What you are will show in what you do.” -Thomas A. Edison
10. “Whatever you are doing is the most beautiful thing.” -Yogi Bhajan
11. “You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you’ll catch up.” -Natsuki Takaya
12. “Celebrate all the things you don’t like about yourself – love yourself.” -Lady Gaga
13. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” -Confucius
14. “Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.” -Julius Charles Hare
15. “There is just one life for each of us: our own.” -Euripides
16. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -Theodore Roosevelt
17. “Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.” -Shakti Gawain
18. “The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” -Anne Morrow
19. “As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.” -Robert H. Schuller
20. “Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.” -James Broughton
21. “The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” -Walt Disney
22. “A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.” -Eileen Caddy
23. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” -Coco Chanel
24. “You are unrepeatable. There is a magic about you that is all your own.” -D.M. Dellinger
25. “Dare to be remarkable.” -Jane Gentry
26. “You are the colors you choose.” -Vicky Wall
27. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” -Harvey Fierstein
28. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” -Lucille Ball
29. “When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.” -Zig Ziglar
30. “Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you’re posing, you’ll forget the pose, and then where are you?” -Fanny Brice
31. “I’d like to think the best of me was still hiding up my sleeve.” -John Mayer
32. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” -Anonymous

What are your favorite inspiring quotes on fitting out?

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37 inspirational quotes on creativity to feel your soul.

1. We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. -Kurt Vonnegut

2. You don’t have to be “a creative” to be creative. –Drory Ben-Menachem

3. Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. -James Russell Lowell

4. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. -John Updike

5. Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables. -Bruce Hershensohm

6. The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. -Rainer Maria Rilke

7. Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -Albert Einstein 

8. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -Jonh Steinbeck

9. True creativity often starts where language ends. -Arthur Koestler 

10. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.  -Carl Jung

11. The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. -Pablo Picasso

12. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. –Dee Hock

13. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, the just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. -Steve Jobs

14. Dance first, think later. -Samuel Beckett

15. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -Scott Adams

16. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. -Marianne Williamson

17. Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. -Anne Sexton

18. Nothing is impossible. The world itself says “I’m Possible”! -Audrey Hepburn

19. Minimalism is not a lack of something. It’s simply the perfect amount of something. -Nicholas Burroughs

20. Creativity is intelligence having fun. -Albert Einstein

21. If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. -Marc Chagall

22. The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen. -Carl Ally

23. That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. -Ray Bradbury

24. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. -George Lois

25. Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it. -Salvador Dali

26. If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent van Gogh

27. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. –Ayn Rand

28. There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. -Edward de Bono

29. You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. -Jack London

30. Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. -William Plomer

31. To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. -Osho

32. I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. -John Cage

33. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. -Joseph Chilton Pierce

34. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. -Maya Angelou

35. A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. –Gerald G. Jampolsky

36. When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity. -Linda Naiman

37. Find something only you can say. -James Dickey

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With beliefs like these floating around, we have to remind ourselves that it’s 2012.

Welcome back everyone! Bad news, they did not cancel sexism this year so we’ve got a full list of horrific quotes about women made in 2012 to look forward to. All of last year’s rules apply, with this notable exception: you will find no Republican politicians here. They are Professionals and we’re dealing strictly with amateurs who play for the love of the game.

10. Licensed comedy expert Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood: “Beautiful actresses are not funny. They don’t know how to do comedy…Only women who grew up ugly and stayed ugly, or through plastic surgery became beautiful, can pull off sitcoms or standups [sic].” Women who were born beautiful but were mauled or otherwise mutilated can sometimes become funny but only after they have been disfigured for a period of time equal to or greater than the duration of their attractive years.

9. Justice Bhaktavatsala, an Indian judge on single female lawyers: “[F]amily matters should be argued only by married people, not spinsters.” Which, speaking of, how good is The Good Wife this season? So good, right? I would say “surprisingly good.” Anything that keeps Christine Baranski working, you know.

8. Gallus Strobel, German mayor who recently marked “difficult” male and “easy” female parking spaces in his small town of Triberg: “It’s been a great marketing gimmick. Women can come here and prove me wrong, and while they’re at it they can see the town’s attractions.” They will probably not do either of these things, but if all you’ve got on your resume at this point in your life is “Mayor of Triberg” and “the parking space guy,” I’m inclined to give you a pass on this one.

7. Douglas Brinkely, of the New York Times, on Jodi Kantor’s White House biography The Obamas: “chick nonfiction” (in his defense, her book is just a series of pencil drawings of Michelle Obama’s clothes with heart-shaped doodles scrawled in randomly around the margins). More importantly, this distinction opens up so many new categories of literature, like “chick war correspondence,” “chick magical realism,” and “chick large print.”

6. Chilean president Sebastian Pinera: “When a politician says ‘Yes,’ he means ‘Maybe,’ when he says ‘Maybe,’ he means ‘No,’ and if he says ‘No,’ he’s not a politician. When a lady says ‘No,’ she means ‘Maybe,’ when she says ‘Maybe,’ she means ‘Yes,’ and if she says ‘Yes,’ she’s not a lady.” Sebastian! There has got to be a quicker way to make that point.

5. Hong Kong billionaire Cecil Chao Sze-tsung on his £40 million pound bounty to any man who successfully courts his recently-married lesbian daughter: “[the money is] an inducement to attract someone who has the talent but not the capital to start his own business.” Awww, buddy. That’s not how love or money works.

4. Safeway Senior VP and General Counsel Robert Gordon opened this year’s shareholder meeting with a little joke: “The president flew into the White House lawn and an agent greeted him at the helicopter. The president was carrying two pigs under his arms and the Secret Service agent said, ‘Nice pigs, sir.’ ‘These are not ordinary pigs, these are genuine Arkansas razorback hogs. I got one for former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and one for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.’ And the Secret Service agent said, ‘Excellent trade, sir.'” I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that kind of bush-league dad joke at a Piggly Wiggly meeting, but I expected a little better from the people who brought us O Organics. Also why is the President carrying the pigs himself in this scenario? Wouldn’t there be a special pig handler nearby, or travel carriers at the least? This story is full of holes.

3. Fox anchor Brian Kilmeade, upon learning that the United States Navy Band was admitting female musicians: “Women are everywhere. We’re letting them play golf and tennis now. It’s out of control.” Just wait until the misandrist bloodbath that gets started once we break through the glass ceiling in badminton.

2. Masked commenter The Toronto Programmer on sexism within the tech community: “‘Brogrammer’ isn’t an exclusionary term…the female equivalent is called a ‘hogrammer’ and I have big respect for women that wear that badge proudly.” Yeah, there is going to be sexism all over Mars and in spaceships and just everywhere in the future thanks to this kind of tech-world sexism (Also I would totally wear a badge that said “hogrammer” on it).

1. Dom and James, creators of Facebook’s Twelve-Year-Old Slut Memes, on their raison d’être: “As long as there are sluts, we will put them in their place.”

This year’s Honorable Mention goes to Aaron Sorkin for his latest HBO series, Normally Capable Women Falling Into Fountains While Wearing Business Suits.

All quotes were calibrated and weighted scientifically in order of sexism and have been arranged accordingly. This list, as always, is comprehensive and exhaustive; nothing has been forgotten or excluded so if you heard anything else sexist this year that’s not here you probably just didn’t understand what they meant to say.

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EcoSalon’s favorite 40 quotes on fresh starts and new beginnings.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. -Henry Ward Beecher

In the dim background of our mind, we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. -William James

Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy. -Sarah Ban Breathnach

The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. -Steve Jobs

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting. -Buddha

Start wherever you are and start small. -Rita Baily

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. -Alan Cohen

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. -J. B. Priestly

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -Saint Francis of Assisi

The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can. -Mike Dooley

Life is not a dress rehearsal. Stop practicing what you’re going to do and just go do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today. -Marilyn Grey

The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. -Franz Kafka

You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. -Barbara Sher

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -Theodore Roosevelt

Don’t worry about being worried. You’re heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. -Tracy Kidder

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all that I can permit myself to contemplate. -John Steinbeck

You will never win if you never begin. -Helen Rowland

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. -Rumi

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. -Maria Robinson

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. -Ben Stein

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -Henry Ford

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. -Liz Smith

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be. -Bruce Springsteen

Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. -Gilda Radner

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one. -Mark Twain

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. -Ralph Blum

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember. -Anne Sullivan

Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. -Mary Manin Morrissey

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. -Dave Weinbaum

Don’t look further for answers: be the solution. You were born with everything you need to know. Make a promise to stop getting in the way of the blessing that you are. Take a deep breath, remember to have fun, and begin. -Jonathan H. Ellerby

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney

I think there is something more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers. There aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision. -W. Clement Stone

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw

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With beliefs like these floating around, we have to remind ourselves that it’s 2011.

It’s hard to believe that this many years after Stieg Larsson ended sexism it’s still possible for public figures to issue dismissive, crude, and derogatory statements about women, but it would appear not everyone has gotten to Girl With a Dragon Tattoo in their book club yet. Until that day comes, here are the worst, most insulting, and simply bizarre quotes about women we heard this year outside of a YouTube comment thread.

Click here to read the new 2012 version. 

10. Trinidadian author V.S. Naipaul started the year out strong by claiming that “women writers are different, they are quite different. I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me…My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. I don’t mean this in any unkind way.” Sorry, ladies – he’s taken.

9. Referring the concern of some evangelical voters that Republican candidate/performance artist Michele Bachmann had usurped her husband’s biblically-mandated authority by running for president, Iowan pastor Brad Sherman had this to say: “She’s in a proper relationship with her husband spiritually. That’s a key point. And she’s asking people for permission to lead the country. That’s not usurping at all.” There’s no word yet on whether or not Michele has a signed permission slip or simply a verbal agreement from Mr. Bachmann, but that’s really a matter for the courts.

8. Tim Gunn on Hillary Clinton: “I think she’s confused about her gender – all these big, baggy, menswear tailored pantsuits…I have a great respect for her intellect and her tenacity and for what she does for our country in her governmental role. I just wish she could send a stronger message about American fashion.”

7. President Obama defended Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ decision to restrict sales of Plan B to girls under the age of 18 with this well-researched, grounded-in-scientific-evidence statement: “I will say this, as the father of two young daughters: I think it is important for us to make sure that, you know, we apply some common sense to various rules when it comes to over-the-counter medicine.” Glass-half-empty point of view, President Obama thinks that young women can’t be trusted to make their own reproductive decisions (never mind that condoms are available without a prescription). Glass-half-full point of view – Barack Obama wants to be our dad!

6. An anonymous Egyptian general spoke to CNN about why female protestors arrested during anti-Mubarak demonstrations were strip-searched and forced to submit to virginity tests. “The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine. These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and [drugs]…We didn’t want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren’t virgins in the first place. None of them were.”

5. At a conference on atheism in Dublin earlier this year, skeptic writer Rebecca Watson registered discomfort at being propositioned by a stranger at 4 a.m. in an elevator after delivering her speech. Richard Dawkins’ response: “Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade…For goodness sake grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin.” A thicker skin would probably help protect against genital discomfort, so the advice was doubly helpful.

4. “So there’s a deeper bond between men and women than St. Valentine would have suspected, and now we know there’s a better gift for that day than chocolates.” Dr. Lazar Springfield, in an op-ed piece for the American College of Surgeons referring to a study that suggested semen had a possible anti-depressive effect. This Valentine’s day, say it with semen.

3. “The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner. You don’t punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don’t argue when a women tells you she’s only making 80 cents to your dollar. It’s the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.” Scott Adams (you know, that guy who draws the cartoons about working in an office your HR manager has tacked up all over the door).

2. Fox News Vice President Joe Chillemi, on the merits of hiring a man versus a woman, says “Of course I’d pick the man. The woman would most likely get pregnant and leave.” I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t let even imminent childbirth tear me from his side.

1. Silvio Berlusconi, in response to allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct: “When asked if they would like to have sex with me, 30% of women said, ‘Yes’, while the other 70% replied, ‘What, again?'” Truly, he was the Prime Minister who got away.

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A weekly round up of EcoSalon’s top stories.

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