The Lipstick Bureau Quotes

“Propaganda should not be addressed to the intellectuals but always to the masses... Propaganda should be directed to the emotions rather than to the intellect... Propaganda must be popular and its level must be low enough for it to impress itself on the simplest mind... These were the notions on which the Morale Operations manual was based, all of them lifted from Hitler’s dastardly text.”
― Michelle Gable, The Lipstick Bureau

“Niki was beginning to think that every male, no matter how great, was obligated to act like a motherfucker a certain number of times per week.”
― Michelle Gable, The Lipstick Bureau

“One. Disinformation must be easy to comprehend—nothing too highbrow. Two. It must be addressed to the masses, not the intellectuals. Three. It should hit on emotions, not facts or logic.”
― Michelle Gable, The Lipstick Bureau

“Only the Germans and convents had food, and we former housewives had one of two ways to survive—become a nun or a whore. About my choice, I feel no shame. Sex is more lucrative than praying, and we must all do things to get by.”
― Michelle Gable, The Lipstick Bureau

“the world had it all wrong. Men were supposed to be the heroes, the saviors, the rescuers of kittens in trees, but she’d seen scant evidence of this trait. Men seemed to cause the problems, not solve them. And, somehow, they always got in her way. 2”
― Michelle Gable, The Lipstick Bureau

“Most people would rather cop to being tricked than admit they’d backed the wrong and extremely vile horse, or that they’d been wrong and extremely vile themselves.”
― Michelle Gable, The Lipstick Bureau