Semi-Biographical, or Quotes She Relates to More than She Probably Should:

“A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up” — Mae West.

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older — the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.” – Persuasion, Jane Austen

“Her ideas of enjoyment were very simple; she enjoyed putting on her new hat, with its redundancy of feather, and twenty cents appeared to her a very large sum.” – The Bostonians, Henry James

“I like the kid. Everybody does, but there’s lot’s that don’t. I do. I sincerely like the kid. I’m sensitive, that’s why. You’ve got to be sensitive to appreciate her: a streak of the poet.” — O.J. Berman in Breakfast at Tiffany’s

“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.” —  Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

“Why can’t I have a normal boyfriend?” — Helen Hunt as Carol Connelly in As Good As It Gets

Words on Love & Relationships She Lives By:

“Why do nice women marry dull men?”

“Because intelligent men won’t marry nice women.” I could not think of any retort to this, so I asked if Mrs. Strickland had children. — The Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset Maugham

At the end of the day, you just want to be with the one who makes you laugh. — Sex & the City

For there is no absolutely plain woman any more than there are any absolutely beautiful. –Michel de Montaigne, “On the Three Kinds of Relationships” from Essays

Shopping has a lot in common with sex: Just about everybody does it. Some people brag about how well they do it. Some keep it a secret. Most people worry, at least a little, about whether they do it right. And both sex and shopping provide ample opportunities to make really foolish choices. —  Thomas Hine, I want That!: How We All Became Shoppers

“And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it’s to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don’t want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.” — Plato, Symposium