Michelle Dean > Quotes

“The more everyone knows just what a nerdfighter is, the more the definition hardens. The most beautiful and intriguing parts of any identity tend to be the fluid ones. And the young people nerdfighteria attracts, after all, are often as confused and lonely and frustrated as they are because they don’t fit into the boxes, a problem that can hardly be resolved by creating a new one.”
― Michelle Dean

“I have thought about their remarks, tried to put myself in their place, considered their point of view. I think they are full of shit. - Nora Ephron”
― Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

“Journalism by women is the price the man's world pays for having disappointed them. Here at their best are the unforgiving eye, the unforgetting ear, the concealed hatpin style.”
― Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

“The woman of 30 and over, you see, is coming into her own,” she averred. “Life begins to mean something to her: she understands it.”
― Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

“We're all stuck with each other, stuck with the history of those who've preceded us. You may make your own way, but you always do it in the streams and eddies forded by others, no matter how much you personally like or dislike them, agree or disagree with them, wish that you were able to transcend this whole situation.”
― Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

“Wells had just conducted herself.”
― Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

“Parker siguió escribiendo columnas para Esquire hasta 1962. El último libro que reseñó fue Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo, de Shirley Jackson, que le encantó. "Me devuelve la fe en el terror y en la muerte. No puedo decir nada mejor del libro ni de su autora". Estas fueron las últimas palabras de Parker como crítica literaria.”
― Michelle Dean, The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion (Hardcover)