“I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon ”

“It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.”