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Mary Gaitskill Quotes

The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.

Mary Gaitskill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1954

Topics

Power Imagination Identity Long Room

My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times I want to dress more elegantly. Most of the time it's what I like to call 'comfortable chic': Giuseppe Zanotti flat sandals, Rag & Bone jeans, slouchy Isabel Marant shirts.

Joan Smalls

Time Style Dress Feel Sometimes

I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.

Jeremy Scott

Life Girl Sad Red Cool End

I love the stuff that makes you laugh and cry. It kind of sucker-punches you a little bit. That's the thing that most interests me as a performer, in addition to telling the most captivating story.

Matt McGorry

Love Me Story Laugh You Kind

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

John Singer Sargent

Hand Mine Horny Toil

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.

Simone Signoret

Love Good I Am Husband She Taste

I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers.

Rita Moreno

Say Mexican Dancers Would Knew Them

The changes that your body goes through during pregnancy are so radical, I've really tried to embrace and celebrate my new body, and hopefully I can encourage other women to do the same.

Mary Helen Bowers

Women Celebrate Body I Can New Same

Our friends on the other side decided early on they didn't want to engage with us in a serious way, a serious way to help those suffering under Obamacare.

Mitch McConnell

Suffering Friends Help Early Serious

Why is it okay to write a work of literary fiction where horrible, explicit things happen, where you can't write a book of humor where silly, explicit things are happening?

Josh Gondelman

Work Humor Book Silly You Why

Something Dylan and I really don't care much for is leaning into the identical twin thing. It doesn't make sense.

Cole Sprouse

Care Something Sense Leaning Much

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

Antony Sher

Me Acting Place First Disguise Drew

With transparency in renewables, the prices of renewables are coming down drastically.

Piyush Goyal

Down Transparency Coming Prices