Susan Jane Gilman Quotes

#1. Besides, nobody ever loves you the way you want.

Susan Jane Gilman

#2. Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts.

Susan Jane Gilman

#3. Everybody thinks that once you reach the top, you can lie back on a divan with a goddamn mai tai. No. Wrong. Success is not a mountain climb. Success is a treadmill.

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#4. Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations
many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.

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#5. Fine watches, I'd been told, were like rich people themselves: You could barely discern them working.

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#6. Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.

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#7. I called her "the Chiquita Banana Lady" and I meant it as a compliment: who didn't want to look adorable with a pile of fruit on her head?

Susan Jane Gilman

#8. Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question.

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#9. him lazy and stupid, they lashed his knuckles

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#10. That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this.

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#11. A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.

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#12. Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

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#13. One of the benefits of TM, Agatha had said, was that it enabled you to be "alone with your thoughts." But as I quickly discovered, a lot of my thoughts were not anything I wanted to be alone with.

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#14. Who the hell knows where they get these farkakte names for their kids. One of Rita's friends named her son Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva Rosenblatt. Can you imagine? Rita always says, 'It's no big deal. They call him 'Bodi', is all.' Please. And the newspapers say I'm abusive to children?

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#15. Everything became a metaphor, a talisman, a sign that I was still actually connected to people - that I wasn't so completely on my own.

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#16. Clowns - feh! All that ghastly, forced gaiety, worse than New Year's Eve.

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