Helena Andrews > Quotes

“I don't think Michelle [Obama:] minds bein our new muse. I think she gets it. We little brown girls - drunk off The Cosby Show, sobered up by life, and a little suicidal - we need her.”
― Helena Andrews, Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir

“Two thousand and seven was the year we officially entered our late twenties - the starting line of the death march to menopause.”
― Helena Andrews, Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir

“By then she was the only one of her seven siblings without a child and quickly approaching thirty (which is like forty when you adjust for inflation since 1980).”
― Helena Andrews, Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir

“What does 'wifey material' even mean when someone at the Washington Post thinks the headline 'Marriage Is for White People?' is okay? The article, of course, became another one of Gina's and my obsessions. The Washington fucking Post was against us now.”
― Helena Andrews, Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir

“Crazy astraunaut ladies and fabulous twenty-something black chicks are in the same spaceship: they're aliens among men blasting off to who knows where.”
― Helena Andrews, Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir