The education of all beautiful women is the knowledge of men. Rosalind had been disappointed in man after man as individuals, but she had great faith in man as a sex. Women she detested. They represented qualities that she felt and despised in herself—incipient meanness, conceit, cowardice, and petty dishonesty. She once told a roomful of her mother’s friends that the only excuse for women was the necessity for a disturbing element among men. She danced exceptionally well, drew cleverly but hastily, and had a startling facility with words, which she used only in love-letters.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
This is my current read from Daily Lit (which is an awesome service, just don’t try to read Proust using it). I am just adoring it, even if it is, so far, the story of a pretty and privileged boy. The prose is yummy and poetic and his descriptions of people often make me laugh out loud. Quite delightful, really.
