# Quote — James M. Cain, Mildred Pierce

> A receptionist is a lazy dame that can’t do anything on earth, and wants to sit out front where everybody can watch her do it.

- Author: [James M. Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain.md)
- Book: [Mildred Pierce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain/mildred-pierce.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_M._Cain#Mildred_Pierce_(1941)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain/mildred-pierce/a-receptionist-is-a-lazy

## More from this book

> If you have to do it, you can do it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain/mildred-pierce/if-you-have.md)

> A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain/mildred-pierce/a-home-is-not.md)

> She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain/mildred-pierce/she-was-a-little.md)