Jennifer Belle > Quotes

“What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.”
― Jennifer Belle, Going Down

“I loved Duncan and I loved being his mother but I wasn't sure I was prepared to be only his mother. Before we were even married, when Russell and I had gotten our dog, Humbert, I had walked him early one morning, and as I stood on a line for coffee, someone had offered him a dog treat. "I always ask the mommy first," she said, looking at him expectantly. "Oh, I'm not his mother," I said, "I'm just his...friend," and she looked at me with complete contempt. "You're his mother," she had scolded, "Poor dog.”
― Jennifer Belle, The Seven Year Bitch

“It was intensely infuriating the way it always is when you call a man you shouldn’t be calling.”
― Jennifer Belle, High Maintenance

“That was the problem with having a job – having to associate with people you wouldn’t sit next to on the subway.”
― Jennifer Belle, High Maintenance

“I started making a pro-and-con list in my mind. Killing myself pros: no risk of getting married and divorced again; no more New Year’s Eve; no more craving phantom sex; no more underwires poking through expensive bras; no more waking up early…”
― Jennifer Belle, High Maintenance

“I wished I could be a statue. I wanted to be the statue of Joan of Arc without actually having to have been Joan of Arc… And I thought, I must really hate my life if I can get jealous of a statue.”
― Jennifer Belle, High Maintenance