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
strong equality men
Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type
women being-in-love love-is
I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.
mistake race europe
One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word "race" or "racism" in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. I could not become a Chinese person or a black person. So they constantly use that in Europe.
women wife empresses
I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.
sexy women opposites
Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.
addiction rest-of-your-life things-you-love
The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
style salad meals
A salad is not a meal, it is a style.
people president reason
People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.
reading firsts grades
The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
rome cities two
Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.
editors people pet
In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.
running sex hate
I happen to love a good run almost as much as sex. Like sex, there are often times I don't think I'm interested until I'm into it. Unlike sex, I do have to get out of bed and into the elements. I hate leaving bed.
character thinking gossip
People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.
book writing editing
Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It's my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they're apparently also not good enough to be shorter.