Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
Elizabeth SmartAlways that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.
Elizabeth SmartYou have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.
Elizabeth Smart