Status Updates From Fanny Herself (Annotated)

“There are only two kinds of people in the world. Those that give, and those that take. And she's tired of giving.”

“If you fold your hands in your lap and wait, quietly, asking no questions, almost anyone will tell you almost anything.”

“Experience, a priceless weapon, that is beaten into shape only by much contact with men and women, and that is sharpened by much rubbing against the rough edges of this world.”

“I'll help myself," said Fanny Brandeis, and smiled a curious smile that had in it more of bitterness and less of mirth than any smile has a right to have.”

“Truly, death is a great leveler.”

“All really great people are like that, finding joy in simple things. I think that is the secret of their genius — the child in them that keeps their viewpoint fresh, and that makes us children again when we listen to them.”

“There was no one to censor her reading, so she read promiscuously, wading gloriously through trash and classic and historical and hysterical alike, and finding something of interest in them all.”

“Life seems to take such special delight in offering temptation to those who are able to withstand it. I don't know why that's true, but it is.”

“For it gave to Molly Brandeis that precious quality, self-confidence, out of which is born success.”