Capote's Women Quotes

“You fall in love at twenty,” Gianni said. “After that, only waitresses fall in love.”
― Laurence Leamer, Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

“He did such things not to shame Babe but because he did not care. He simply did whatever he wanted to do.”
― Laurence Leamer, Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

“There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free,” Wharton wrote in her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Age of Innocence.”
― Laurence Leamer, Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

“She was perfect; otherwise she was perfect”
― Laurence Leamer, Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

“boring”
― Laurence Leamer, Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

“Truman was so self-absorbed that it took him a long while to realize Marella had taken him out of her life.”
― Laurence Leamer, Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era