Sublime

FEW THINGS ARE more mysterious than someone else’s favorite film. To hear it named is to be puzzled. You appreciate its merits but not how it can be preferable to all others. Perhaps your favorite film isn’t the one that you like best but the one that likes you best. It confirms you on first encounter, and goes on to shape you in some irreversible

But Woody Allen changed everything. Woody Allen made it acceptable for beautiful women to sleep with nerdy, bespectacled goofballs;

I think there’s a safety in girlhood, in the mistakes and the naïveté, the youth and maybe even the beauty, which is all pushed by the media we consume,” Ms. Reese said. “Womanhood, meanwhile, is seeped with this lack of playfulness, seriousness, aging — the horror, right?”

“But women all get that way after children come—too much mother, too little wife.”

These women, whose essential distinction of motherhood was the dominant note of their whole culture, were strikingly deficient in what we call "femininity."

Gore Vidal called Samantha a “hooker” in the pages of The Atlantic, in the voice of the purest most cynical cronyism: “Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels she’s been taken advantage of?” At any rate, there’s a chance that she knew she had some power, some sexual pull. And in just a year, I would know too. The next year