Women

Woman: Having sex with him was the same as eating a slice of plain Wonder bread while looking in the window of a Crate and Barrel.

–York & 70th

Woman: So it’s top secret. I think I’m going to quit in January.

–500 Madison Avenue

Vagrant: Can you help a homeless man get something to eat? Huh? Ma’am? Did you say no? I can’t hear you!
Chinese Lady: No.
Vagrant: She said no! People, let me hear you!

–6 Train

Woman #1: I think it’s a lion. See? That’s its eye, there’s its tail.
Woman #2: I think it’s a frog.
Woman #1: Really? I don’t see that.
Woman #2: I mean a very surrealistic frog.

–MOMA

Overheard by: Peter Anthony Ryan

Middle-aged woman: I want Gloria Steinem’s eyeballs in my fucking martini!

–East Village

Superbubbly Woman: I’ll see you tomorrow! Which is Friday! And we’ll kick it up another notch!
Cashier: OK!

–Bodega, 9th Ave & 36th Street

Lady Lawyer: He says, ‘She doesn’t appreciate me.’ Come on, you’re in prison. What’s she going to appreciate, that you made her a personalized license plate?

–Starbucks, Wall St.

Woman: My dad controls all the money in the house, to the point where if my mom wants to go shopping she has to talk to him. She’d said, ‘You really need to go to the grocery. Your daughter only had a protein shake to eat today.’ He said, ‘Well, she needs to lose weight anyway.’ It’s crazy. That’s the kind of shit we had to deal with growing up.

–29th & Park

Urban woman: Those little Chinese people never even say “Excuse me”! They’re so fucking goddamn rude!

–D Train

Woman: Yeah…and I told my mother, “Sorry, but you can’t abort a 28-year-old fetus.”

–1/9 Train

Overheard by: Stephanie