“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.”
Camille Paglia
“It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.”
Jane Austen
“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly”
Oscar Wilde
“All the modern inconveniences”
Mark Twain
“It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about.”
Steve Coogan
“It's really about the challenges, dreams and fears of contemporary, modern women.”
Candace Bushnell
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