I have ambivalent feelings about The Help but this was my favorite part:
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Mr. Blackly [interviewing Skeeter for a job at the newspaper]:
Murrah High Editor, Ole Miss Rebel Rouser Editor, double major. Woohoo. Junior League editor. Damn girl, don't you have any fun?
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Skeeter:
Is that important?
“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving… We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins… We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive are our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers… We are the daughters of the feminists who said, “You can be anything,” and we heard, “You have to be everything.”
“I fell in love and my eyes couldn’t read.”
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Columbia University English professor Julie Crawford’s answer to “What’s the craziest student excuse/extension story you’ve heard?”
(via Bwog)
“It is a common practice of young ladies who avail themselves of their college’s Junior Year Abroad program to refer irreverently to the experience as their ‘Junior Affair Abroad.’”
— Dean MacCannell, The Tourist
“The United States makes the rest of the world seem authentic; California makes the rest of the United States seem authentic.”
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Dean MacCannell, The Tourist
Just one of many choice quotations from my reading for my anthropology of consumption class.
“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stumped by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, ‘Hi.’ They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.”
— Augusten Burrough
“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”
“Do men say you are ‘intimidating?’ Good! Men are not intimidated enough!”
“Thank you very much, and this means a lot to me because I’ve always wanted to win a Teen’s Choice Award, and when I was a teen, I was not a teen’s choice. So, all of you teenagers out there, who are not a teen’s choice, look at this [points at self]. It’s never too late. Hang on, and love yourself, and be kind to one another.”
— Ellen DeGeneres at the 2011 Teen’s Choice Awards
“What makes for happiness in the fashion industry?
If it’s happiness you’re looking for, I suggest you try another profession.”
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside
“In Europe, sex sells. In America, it’s hair.”
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Glenda Bailey, editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar (via WWD)
I’d add that hair is sex.
“I mean, a new dress doesn’t get you anywhere; it’s the life you’re living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.”
— D.V. by Diana Vreeland (former editor in chief of Vogue)
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When you inevitably can’t fit into a garment, the stylist’s assistant will be sent in to help you. The stylist’s assistant will be a chic twenty-year-old Asian girl named Esther or Agnes or Lot’s Wife.
In a few years she’ll be running the editorial staff, but at this point in time her job is to stuff a middle-aged woman’s bare ass crack into a Prada dress and zip it up,
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Tina Fey in her new book, Bossypants. She knows what’s up.
I have never assisted on a photoshoot with Fey, but I have assisted on photoshoots with her co-workers, and they are all so kind and funny. Love comedians.
“I think personal blogs are for people with insomnia and not enough friends. A girl has to do something in the middle of the night to convince herself she’s not entirely insane. Oh Sylvia Plath. If only you had a WordPress!”
“We can bear a lot.”
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Anonymous
This person probably didn’t realize how profound these words were to me. I repeat these to myself all the time now.
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