Date: 1966, 1968
"'You're the least important person in the room and don't forget it,' Jessica Mitford's governess would hiss in her ear on the advent of any social occasion; I copied that into my notebook because it is only recently that I have been able to enter a room without hearing some such phrase in my inn...
preview | full record— Didion, Joan (b. 1934)
Date: 1966, 1968
"Otherwise they [the people we used to be] turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends."
preview | full record— Didion, Joan (b. 1934)
Date: April 15, 1971
"You've got a geranium in your cranium."
preview | full record— Lederer, Esther [Ann Landers] (1918-2002)