Mary Schmich Quotes

» Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

» The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

» You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

» Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

» Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

» Barbie is just a doll.

» TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.

» Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

» You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

» Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

» Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

» Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.

» Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

» Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

» In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

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