Quote by Sloane Crosley
In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-workers party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image. – Sloane Crosley

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Theres already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk – except they all apply to you, and all at once. – Sloane Crosley

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Marriage
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I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if its a paragraph. – Sloane Crosley

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My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers – this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawfords wire hangers look like pool noodles. – Sloane Crosley

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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. – Honoré de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage

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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. – Daphne du Maurier

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To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world? – Christopher Hitchens

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