... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey. — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises. — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it… — Eve Babitz Copy Share
“It made her question why human beings always appeared to be coming along so nicely as a whole when the bottom would fall out… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“Everyone knew the way to dance was like black people did and they all danced that way.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most,… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“Jacaranda believed that in the world of airplanes there were only two kinds of luggage—carry-on or lost.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance;… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
