Joan Rivers once said: “I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.”

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For a woman whose job it was to break boundaries and say what everyone was thinking, the best way to pay tribute to Rivers is to celebrate her best work.

Here’s a collection of her most hilarious one-liners:

On death:

“At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.”

On her childhood:

“All I ever heard when I was a kid was, ‘Why can’t you be more like your cousin Sheila?’ And Sheila had died at birth.”

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

On fitness:

“I don’t work out. If God wanted us to bend over he’d put diamonds on the floor.”

On marriage:

“When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now…once he opened the car door for me in the last four years – we were on the freeway at the time.”

Celebrity insults:

“The whole Michael Jackson thing was my fault. I told him to date only twenty-eight-year-olds. Who knew he would find 20 of them?”

“I’ve worked with Angelina Jolie. She saw a sign that said ‘WET FLOOR’ one time, and she did.”

On being a parent:

“My daughter and I are very close. We speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, ‘Pick up, I know you’re there.’ And she says the same thing back, ‘How’d you get this new number?'”

“Don’t tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won’t respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, ‘Melissa, you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'”

On ageing:

“My breasts are so low, now I can have a mammogram and a pedicure at the same time.”

On sex appeal:

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

“I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.”