Ross Petras
Kathryn Petras

Talk show host Caroline Rhea on therapy: “[It’s] great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It’s kinda like being the guy on a date.” Comedian Wendy Leibman on road rage: “My license plate says PMS. Nobody cuts me off.” Ouch! They’re brash, they’re funny, they’re Tough Dames, returning after an in-your-face debut with another year of women telling it like it is. From Coco Chanel to the Sex and the City gals, from Erma Bombeck to Brooke Astor at 92: “When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.”