Gossip

Laurie Colwin:

I don’t call it gossip, I call it “emotional speculation.”

Liz Smith:

Bad gossip drives out good gossip.

Patricia Meyer Spacks:

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears about it a faint flavor of the erotic.

Rachel M. Brownstein:

Good gossip approximates art.

Erica Jong:

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Liz Smith:

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.