“our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!”
“It only takes a second for you to call a girl fat and she will starve herself for the rest of her life. Think before you act.”
“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. ”
“There’s always tomorrow.” “Exactly,” she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.”
“She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration. ”
“She wanted out of that decorating scheme.”