My Life as a Villainess Quotes

“That young woman is gone. Her, I don’t miss. She is petty and envious. She’d make a good secondary character in a John Hughes movie, one of the “yes” girls who surround the Queen Bee. Her imagination is limited, a terrible thing in a writer. She cannot begin to see where her life will take her, can never imagine herself thirty-two years in the future, writing these words while sitting at a marble-topped kitchen table in an Italian farmhouse. Why is her imagination so stunted when it comes to her own life? Why is she willing to settle for so little? Why does she want so much?”
― Laura Lippman, My Life as a Villainess: Essays – Personal and Candid Reflections on Motherhood, Journalism, and Friendship

“They didn’t fuck me up, my mom and dad. On that score, I’m a self-made woman.”
― Laura Lippman, My Life as a Villainess: Essays – Personal and Candid Reflections on Motherhood, Journalism, and Friendship