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This will always be your struggle whether you are twenty-one or fifty-one. I know this from experience. When I quit the New York Times to be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said that I was nuts. When I quit it again to be a full-time novelist, they said I was nuts again. But I am not nuts. I am happy. I am successful on my own terms.... See more

Anna Quindlen • 1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech

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Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear

The death of the public intellectual

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A lot contributed to Anna finally getting her first job at Vogue. She had spent more than half her life developing a personal brand—the hair, the sunglasses, the polished designer wardrobe, moving through the world like the star of her own never-ending photo shoot. As Schechter put it, “She’s not loud and she’s not theatrical. She’s always

Amy Odell • Anna

And, like many modern people—modern women, especially—I had catapulted out of my context…The successes [of the writers] gave me hope, of course, yet it was the desperate bits I liked best. I was looking for directions, gathering clues.

William Zinsser • Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher

I think of her often. She happens to hit on a particular fixation of mine, which is the problem of “taste” as an ever-present commodity, rather than something idiosyncratic, personal, and most importantly, connected to other aspects of your day-to-day life, like how you move around the world and what you do to pass the time. I think of people whose... See more

Haley Nahman • #176: Accounting for taste

Your godparents, also city people, live a mile down the road. She has red hair and cat’s-eye glasses; he is bald and does one voice to impersonate all four Beatles.

Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned

made her want to be a superlative. She felt that the only way to be seen was to be remarkable in one department.

Lisa Taddeo • Three Women: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

In early 1980s London, there were several different youth fashion movements happening at the same time: the New Wave, a less scary and political descendent of punk; Buffalo, created and shaped by influential stylist Ray Petri, where kids of mixed race or ethnicities wore classic 1950s looks like leather bomber jackets, pressed dungarees, white