“If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.” IfsKnowsTruthLyingArtistReports Book:Real People: A Novel Source: Real People: A Novel
“Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.” IfsWorldWellsHas BeensRunningGirlClassFeetModernExampleLimitsFemaleUniversalShoesAncientCaughtHeavyExtremesLegsChinesePoundsCustomsSexismRunning AwayEmployedWireBindingMobilityBrassUpper ClassStratagemModern WomanSamantha Author:Alison Lurie
“Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.” IfsThinkingWorldKindAnimalTravelComfortableClothesDressesZoosDisneylandArtifactsQuaintFlora Author:Alison Lurie
“But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.” IfsThinkingWayKindPersonsDoeSelfSometimesProveRateShockDestructiveBreakfastProve ItSelf DestructiveSecond Rate Book:Real People: A Novel Source: Real People: A Novel
“Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world” IfsWorldInspirationPleasureFashionSpeechPrivilegeFree SpeechFree World Author:Alison Lurie
