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Daily Inspiration Quote by Sharon Stone

"I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?"

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Stone’s joke lands because it treats recklessness as routine, turning a dangerous act into a deadpan lifestyle hack. “I drive with my knees” is a punch line disguised as a confession: the image is absurd, but the logic is chillingly familiar. She’s not really bragging about her coordination; she’s skewering the expectation that a woman must stay “on” even while doing something as basic as getting from place to place. The “otherwise” sets up a false necessity, as if lipstick and phone calls are non-negotiable obligations that outrank safety. That inversion is the satire.

The subtext is a split-screen of modern performance. One hand is supposed to hold the wheel, the other is supposed to maintain desirability and availability. Lipstick reads as feminine presentation, the phone as social and professional responsiveness. Together they sketch a culture that rewards multitasking until it becomes self-destructive, then shrugs when it goes wrong.

Coming from Sharon Stone, the line also plays with her persona: a star who’s long been framed as both hyper-competent and hyper-scrutinized, someone whose public image is built around control and provocation. She weaponizes that perception, using a throwaway quip to point at how normalized distraction is, and how gendered that distraction can be. It’s comedy that doubles as critique: if the world demands you be polished and reachable at all times, eventually you start steering with your knees.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Stone, Sharon. (2026, January 16). I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone? FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-drive-with-my-knees-otherwise-how-can-i-put-on-95205/

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Stone, Sharon. "I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?" FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-drive-with-my-knees-otherwise-how-can-i-put-on-95205/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?" FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-drive-with-my-knees-otherwise-how-can-i-put-on-95205/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.

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Sharon Stone (born March 10, 1958) is a Actress from USA.

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