Sharp Quotes

“I have thought about their remarks, tried to put myself in their place, considered their point of view. I think they are full of shit. - Nora Ephron”
― Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

“Journalism by women is the price the man's world pays for having disappointed them. Here at their best are the unforgiving eye, the unforgetting ear, the concealed hatpin style.”
― Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

“We're all stuck with each other, stuck with the history of those who've preceded us. You may make your own way, but you always do it in the streams and eddies forded by others, no matter how much you personally like or dislike them, agree or disagree with them, wish that you were able to transcend this whole situation.”
― Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

“Wells had just conducted herself.”
― Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

“The woman of 30 and over, you see, is coming into her own,” she averred. “Life begins to mean something to her: she understands it.”
― Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion