Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz
Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitzis an American author and public speaker. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEssayist
Date of Birth27 October 1950
CityMorristown, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
mean people special
Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??
mean thinking clothes
American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
falling-in-love sex love-is
The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
new-york cities desire
I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.
museums perfect quests
A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.
circles modern-life crash
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.
children giving enemy
If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.
country enemy united-states
If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.
children real cutting
Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.
facts nonfiction looks
I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
stars kids rocks
When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.
new-york cities borders
I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I would say, "You can come here to live, but you can't come here to visit."
book people tree
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.
people age certain
When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.