Natalie

“I had a collection of lovers to keep me warm and my friendships with women, who always fascinated me by their wit, bravery and resourcefulness, and who never told you the same story twice. Now, women I didn't mind. I mean, you can go places with a woman and come back just fine.”
― Eve Babitz

“I did not become famous but I got near enough to smell the stench of success. It smelled like burnt cloth and rancid gardenias, and I realised that the truly awful thing about success is that it's held up all those years as the thing that would make everything all right. And the only thing that makes things even slightly bearable is a friend who knows what you're talking about.”
― Eve Babitz

“Women want to be loved like roses. They spend hours perfecting their eyebrows and toes and inventing irresistible curls that fall by accident down the back of their necks from otherwise austere hairstyles. They want their lover to remember the way they held a glass. They want to haunt.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company

“Women who dance with their eyes closed, smiling, are as near to heaven as you can get on earth, and there I was, in heaven.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.