Mccarthyism Quote by Elizabeth Winder

“Perhaps some guest editors would keep Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in their peripheral vision. But Sylvia recognized their execution as the most extreme and…

— Elizabeth Winder

“All year long Sylvia had been trying to overthrow her guileless, college girl image. She knew "cottons with big full skirts and university personalities"…

— Elizabeth Winder

“She was the quintessential twenty-first-century woman: She could build a high-rise in a Chanel suit and Jimmy Choos, give lessons in multitasking, and freeze…

— Donna Ball

Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the…

— Lilith Saintcrow

“For the next nine months, Sylvia would report on campus trends, politics, tastes, style. It was an honor, but it was grueling. Sylvia was…

— Elizabeth Winder

“Parking himself on the chaise lounge, he stared at the gown that Lassiter had handled so roughly. The fine satin was bunched up in…

— J.R. Ward

“Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore: they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.”

— Julian Assange

The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.

— Hugh Hefner

“She was an old-fashioned woman. She had the calm of frequentation; she belonged to this house and it to her. Though she was a…

— Christina Stead

“Not a look, not a gesture of Valerie Saintclair’s but expressed drama. She seemed to exhale an atmosphere of romance. A scarlet flannel dressing…

— Agatha Christie

“Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown.”

— Peter Carey

“Tall, black-haired, rouged, Kaiser-moustached, he cackled and screamed in weird attitudes, giggling in high soprano, hiding his little black teeth behind an exquisitely gloved…

— William Sansom