Park Avenue Summer Quotes

“Helen had given me permission to pursue what I wanted, and as a result, I knew myself better—what I liked, what I didn’t. Most important, I had discovered what I deserved.”
― Renee Rosen, Park Avenue Summer

“I find it so funny that you’re nervous about a woman editing a magazine for women.”
― Renée Rosen, Park Avenue Summer

“Don’t you see? Helen Gurley Brown is still telling us that we need a man to be fulfilled. Betty Friedan is telling us that we already have everything we need within ourselves.”
― Renée Rosen, Park Avenue Summer

“Practically my whole life had been given over to daydreaming. The here and now didn’t satisfy me. I wanted bigger, better, more.”
― Renee Rosen, Park Avenue Summer

“There was a lot of power in that restaurant. You could feel it radiating off the tables, like heat coming off the pavement on a ninety-degree day.”
― Renée Rosen, Park Avenue Summer

“The taxi driver switched the station on the radio and the song “You’ll Never Walk Alone” came on.”
― Renée Rosen, Park Avenue Summer

“We ordered two egg plates that came with hash browns, rye toast and a rasher of bacon for 35¢, along with two bottomless coffees, a nickel a cup.”
― Renée Rosen, Park Avenue Summer

“...and it's those moments--when you're worried sick over the possibility of losing him--that you realize how much you've come to depend on him. For the little things like carrying the groceries and changing the lightbulb in your closet, or scratching that place between your shoulder blades that you can't reach.”
― Renee Rosen, Park Avenue Summer