Joan Rivers' 16 Best Quotes

Joan Rivers' comedy was biting and frequently self-deprecating. She was often known to say things that got her in hot water, but it was her refusal to back down or apologize for her comedy that made her one of the funniest performers of all time.

Rivers died on September 4, 2014 at age 81. We're remembering some of the most amazingly funny and profoundly inspirational things she said over her 60-plus year career.

"I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking."

"I don't exercise. If God wanted us to bend over, he'd put diamonds on the floor."

"I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die, they will donate my body to Tupperware."

"My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus — that way, I'd visit him every day."

"I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was, 'The man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds."

"I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive. Things are happening."

"All babies look like Renee Zellweger pushed against a glass window."

"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio."

"My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know."

"I have no sex appeal. If my husband didn't toss and turn, we'd never have had the kid."

"No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card."

"The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it."

"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'"

"You make the beds, you wash the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again"

"It's been so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who."

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