New york city 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

“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

“It is perhaps fortunate that Sylvia was oblivious to the commotion behind the scenes. Apparently, Henry O. Teltscher had written a letter to Betsy…

— Elizabeth Winder