we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish.… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
You know what we can be like: see a guy and think he's cute one minute, the next minute our brains have… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode,… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs.… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
“Prune these alleged friends ruthlessly from your life. You need all the positive reinforcement you can get. You need friends who think you're fabulous,… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
There is one thing that humans strive for with every cell, every gene, every nerve fiber of our beings. ... More than Mallomars, more… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape.… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
In Manhattan, marriage is a trend. Couples kiss over their arugula and radicchio salads. They fondle each other's genitals while devouring their pasta puttanesca.… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image