Quotes by : Elizabeth Winder

Life is amazingly simplified,” she wrote in her journal, “now that the recalcitrant forsythia has....

...she could not stick by the golden mean...was always anxious to experiment in extremes...to find out....

New clothes left Sylvia reeling with happiness. For Sylvia, a shopping list was a poem. She always shopped....

New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh,....

That none discussed their doubts, that they assumed everyone else was just having a grand time of it....

We knew she [Sylvia] was unusual, because of the seriousness with which she was treated, the lofty importance....

You may discover that the very aspects which make it most unendurable are what gives New York its meaning.....

These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee.....

Before New York, the cracks were already there, but now they began to split open and gape, and the difference....

Sylvia would have taken it seriously- so strong was her devotion to the innate intelligence of form.....