Fashion Quote by Elizabeth Winder

“New Yorkers hustled past in every direction, somehow managing not to run smack into one another. A dozen scents hit her at once. Car…

— Tessa Bailey

I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to…

— Candace Bushnell

“The smoke from her cigarette passed beneath the nostrils of the brown and white girls, and their space-annihilating concupiscence seemed centered on mentholated smoke…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Women of Manhattan, magnificent as they were, they forgot sometimes they weren’t immortal. They could throw themselves like confetti into a fun-filled Friday night,…

— Marisha Pessl

“at keltner's deli, everything was somehow neutralized. they were girls. they were girls with odd names who smoked after school together and maybe sometimes…

— Emily Franklin

“I know second-generation New Yorkers who have never been to Brooklyn;”

— Pete Hamill

“I came to New York because I was fleeing from the double-wide baby stroller, from the culture of respectability of the bourgeois suburban middle…

— Junot Díaz

“All she’d notice was that some things were strange because they reminded her of Brooklyn and that other things were strange because they were…

— Betty Smith

“Spring came early that year and the sweet warm nights made her restless. She walked up and down the streets and through the park.…

— Betty Smith

“They pictured themselves dashing around Manhattan, latte in one hand, cell phone in the other, adorably breaking a designer heel while hailing a cab,…

— Gillian Flynn

“There was, of course, nowhere better in the world to be than New York City. This fact was the foundation of her family's satisfaction…

— Jonathan Franzen

“New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing…

— James Weldon Johnson