Laurie Colwin:
I don't call it gossip, I call it "emotional speculation."

George Eliot:
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

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.  

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