Attention Quote by Elizabeth Winder

“I've lived long enough to know that life doesn't always stick to the rules...The perfectly impossible and absolutely ridiculous keep happening all the time.”

— Elizabeth Winder

“I suppose that was an example of close attention to detail that is common to writers and artists. It is imperative, whether consciously or…

— Elizabeth Winder

“The serious Sylvia was agonizing over the execution of the Rosenbergs and McCarthyism; others were delighting to dream over trousseau lingerie at Vanity Fair's…

— Elizabeth Winder

“When I was doing the Mademoiselle application my husband would peer over my shoulder and say, "What are you doing competing with the best…

— Elizabeth Winder

“It was in this atmosphere of boozy wistfulness and dizzy exhaustion that Sylvia- along with Carol LeVarn- took her suitcase to the Barbizon roof…

— Elizabeth Winder

“Life is amazingly simplified,” she wrote in her journal, “now that the recalcitrant forsythia has at last decided to come and blurt out springtime…

— Elizabeth Winder

“New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.”

— Elizabeth Winder

“Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.”

— Elizabeth Winder

“However vivid they might be, past images and future delights did not protect Sylvia from the present, which "rules despotic over pale shadows of…

— Elizabeth Winder

“With headlines like "Marry Now or Never," the specter of marriage loomed. It was a constant fear, a threat, a reminder. But Sylvia wasn't…

— Elizabeth Winder

“That none discussed their doubts, that they assumed everyone else was just having a grand time of it and felt at ease and enjoying…

— Elizabeth Winder

“This is the story of an electrically alive young woman on the brink of her adult life. An artist equally attuned to the light…

— Elizabeth Winder