Kathy Cooperman > Quotes

“How did the nursery rhyme go? “Old Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard and found she was fresh out of blow.” Something like that. Annie”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“Joan Collins once said that being beautiful was like being born rich and getting poorer every day.”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“Annabelle, please don’t take this the wrong way, but there’s something very moral about you. You’re like an Amish woman with an invisible prayer bonnet on your head. People don’t need to see the bonnet on you. They can sense it.”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She watered and fed her children, but she had no interest in playing with or listening to them.”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“When Sarah finally got pregnant, she was determined to be ruthlessly positive about it. She would not jinx her twins by complaining about minor inconveniences. No, she would remain sunny. She read all the feel-good books she could find on pregnancy and child-rearing, blocking out dark thoughts by force of will. But as the days wore on and her nausea went from bad to worse, one book kept bobbing up in Sarah’s consciousness: Rosemary’s Baby, Ira Levin’s tale about Satan’s mother. Rosemary had had morning sickness too, right?   47”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“The Six was everything that a book club book should be: short at two hundred pages, highbrow because it dealt with English history, and sexy because it focused on a man who had humped his way through half the English court. It was also critically acclaimed by the right people, meaning that the New York Times loved it but the masses did not.”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“Time is unkind to all of us, but it is particularly sadistic to women. A man’s physical prowess may dwindle with time, but he has compensations: stature, wealth, eminence. Men grow distinguished while women simply grow old.”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca was the book club pick that got under Kim’s skin. She took no pleasure in watching the timid heroine contort herself in a desperate attempt to live up to the memory of her aloof husband’s dauntingly beautiful, now-dead first wife. Kim had thrown the book across the room when—hundreds of pages in—the husband revealed that he’d hated his first wife and loved the newbie exactly as she was. Why the fuck hadn’t he said so back in chapter one?   22”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“In La Jolla, money was God: all-important but abstract.”
― Kathy Cooperman

“He’s changed?” “Yes. He’s started hanging out with a different crowd, a richer crowd. The men are all so arrogant. They don’t doubt themselves for a minute. They go to work and people agree with them all day long. And then they come home and their wives agree with them too. It’s a rarefied group, but—if you hang around with them long enough—it starts to feel like that’s how things should be. Regular working families, families where wives are equals, begin to seem like losers. You know the husband would start bossing the wife around if he made enough money, if he was man enough.” Sarah raised an eyebrow. “Man enough?” “Yes. It’s surreal. You’ve got all these nerdy-looking, chubby men who built their fortunes behind desks. And as soon as they get rich, they start using all this macho language, as if they’re gangsters or something. The other day, I heard one of Andrew’s partners talking about a competitor starting a price war. He said, ‘If those bastards screw with us, we’ll take ’em to the mattresses.’” Sarah caught the Godfather reference and smiled. “Yes. I’ve heard that kind of talk before. Bank account becomes a proxy for dick size.” “Exactly!”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“Harry was qualified to judge how well she did because everyone is qualified to critique a housewife. when you're an at-home mom, suddenly everyone in the world is your management consultant. The same wasn't true of Harry. Whenever he fell short at home, he always got to hide behind the opaque screen of his job.”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“Every book was a revelation to their suggestible young minds. They both sulked through their work-study jobs after Marx told them they were “estranged from their labor.” Then they acted like entitled assholes for a week after Ayn Rand told them to be selfish. Later, Charles Dickens’s starving children and miserly industrial overlords made them repent.”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“When Annie didn’t rush in with praise, Chloe huffed, “Oh, I know I wasn’t a perfect mother. But we can’t all be perfect, Annie. I can’t be like you. And truth be told, I wouldn’t want to be. My dear girl, the truth is that you’ll never be a first-class human being or even a first-class woman until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.” Annie was unimpressed. “You stole that from The Philadelphia Story.” “So what if I did? It’s still true.” Annie”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“Although Dawn had not cracked a book in years, she read every inch of the three tabloid magazines to which she subscribed. Priscilla”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“Slowly but relentlessly, the thin topsoil of gentility eroded.”
― Kathy Cooperman, The Very Principled Maggie Mayfield

“Panicking inwardly, Natalie responded with evasive answers and false optimism. She felt like the minister of information for a failing totalitarian regime. Desperate,”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“To this hyperaerobicized, kale-munching crowd, Annie’s spare tire was about as funny as cancer or female genital mutilation.”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“To this hyperaerobicized, kale-munching crowd, Annie’s spare tire was about as funny as cancer or female genital mutilation. Annie”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“Annabelle, please don’t take this the wrong way, but there’s something very moral about you. You’re like an Amish woman with an invisible prayer bonnet on your head. People don’t need to see the bonnet on you. They can sense it. If I were a casting agent, I’d put you up for all the prim and proper parts: the jury member who gasps when a witness uses an off-color expression, that sort of thing.” Annie”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“they’ll sue. That’s what rich people do when you annoy them. They sue you.”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club

“The book wasn’t the point of this meeting. It was an excuse to get together and talk about the same old crap with booze, better food, and fancier outfits. Leaning back on the couch, Annie listened numbly as the women gossiped about people she did not know and would probably never meet. They”
― Kathy Cooperman, Crimes Against a Book Club