The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
Janet FlannerI am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.
Janet FlannerProust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.
Janet Flanner... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.
Janet Flanner