“I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives’ tales about how men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I have never seen this happen.”
– Dorothy Parker
“Chanel No. 5”
– Marilyn Monroe’s answer
to a newspaper reporter
who asked what she wore
to bed every night.
“Sure we all knew Miss Monroe.
She’d come in here late at night.
She said to me, ‘Schwab’s is my favorite place in all the world, I got my start in Schwab’s guess how,’ and I asked how and she said, ‘Some man noticing my ass, how else?’ and laughed. She wasn’t like the other big stars who you never see, who send in servants. She came in herself and she was always alone. No makeup and you’d hardly know her. She was the most alone person I ever knew…”
– a female cashier at Schwabs, in Blonde, by