Bess Myerson Quotes - Interesting, entertaining, inspiring, poignant thoughts about the famous American Jewish beauty queen, television actress, model, public servant and politician

Bess Myerson was born on July 16, 1924 in New York City. She was the famous American Jewish beauty queen, television actress, model, public servant and politician who became the first Jewish Miss America in 1945. Her achievement was heralded as an affirmation of the place of Jews in American life after the German Holocaust. Bess Myerson was a heroine in the Jewish community where she was the most famous beauty queen after Queen Esther. Myerson made frequent television appearances during the 1950s and 1960s. She was a commissioner in the New York City administration. She served on presidential commissions from the 1960s to the 1980s and also ran for the US Senate but was defeated. Her career in public service ended in the late 1980s when she was charged with bribery and conspiracy. She was eventually acquitted after an extensive trial.

Bess Myerson Myerson developed ovarian cancer in the 1970s, suffered a mild stroke in 1981, from which she fully recovered. She moved to Florida in 2002 and later to California, where she lived until her death. In 2013 she was diagnosed with dementia. Myerson died on December 14, 2014, in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 90. Her death was not immediately publicly announced, with the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office confirming it three weeks later. Bess Myerson was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica.

Myerson was 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) tall at age 21 and had voluptuous brown hair. When Myerson was told by her sister Sylvia about the Miss New York beauty pageant, Myerson was outraged because she felt the beauty business was shameful. Sylvia later persuaded her to compete and she competed in the swimsuit competition using a borrowed swimsuit. Myerson enjoyed participating in the competition, in which she stood out from the other contestants because of her height. On August 15, 1945, the day of Japan's surrender (VJ Day), she won the competition and received a $5,000 scholarship. She told interviewers that she wanted to buy a black Steinway grand piano with the scholarship money. She was later crowned the Jewish Miss America. Here are some interesting, entertaining, inspiring, poignant thoughts of Bess Myerson

You cannot hate even if you are beautiful because hatred is a corrosive disease and affects the way you look. You can never hide it. It shows in your eyes. It distorts your expression. It affects your character, your personality.

Often our own indifference is a partner in the crime of corruption.

You have to love people, places, ideas, you have to live with mind, body, soul, you have to be committed, no life is on the sidelines.

I never like other people to clean up for me. I don't want them to invade my privacy.

It's very easy to fall in love, but it's very terrible to fall out of love.

I'm like the Phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

I'm not scheming, that's a derogatory reference to it. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

Everyone asks me, so, what are you doing now? Why should I do something? I've been doing something all my life. For now, I'm calm, quiet, grateful.

Even when I go jogging, I need a place to go.

I've faced crises all my life and survived.

All the praise I've received can't replace the praise I never got from my mother at home. I wanted some wonderful man to come and save me from my life, but there was none, at least not for me.

I don't consider my divorces to be mistakes. Those marriages were the right fit for the person who made that decision at the time.

Men pursue me, and I choose from them.

Success is not about how much money you make, but about the difference you make in people's lives.

The real secret to happiness is not in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

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