Show Us Your Legs, Simone
Jun. 18th, 2004 09:20 amAnd yet another pithy quote pops out of my random quote file:
"In my brief experience, I sense that America is hard on intellectuals. Publishers and editors size up your mind in a critical and distasteful way, like an impresario asking a dancer to show her legs."
—Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day, 1946
"In my brief experience, I sense that America is hard on intellectuals. Publishers and editors size up your mind in a critical and distasteful way, like an impresario asking a dancer to show her legs."
—Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day, 1946