Amanda Schwartz

“The rise of selfie culture isn’t about vanity; it’s about women taking back control of our images—and our self-images. I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

“But attention focused on their inane sexual banter, especially Charles’s juvenile wish to be reincarnated as a tampon so he could “live inside your trousers.”
― Sally Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

“Time is not my dictator,” said the Queen Mother. “I dictate to time. I want to meet people.”
― Sally Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

“They, honest to God, think their traumas are the most interesting thing about them. I sound like I’m making fun, and I am a little, but I don’t mean to be. They’re so different from us, really. Their standards are higher; they call bullshit on so much of the sexism and racism that I, at least, just lived with. But that’s also made them kind of, well, humorless. I hate people who talk about generational differences like it’s an actual thing, and here I am, doing it. It doesn’t make sense. How alike were you to anyone we grew up with, you know?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow