Oh really? Life is not as perfect for you as it used to be, for gentile straight white men? She is flabbergasted by the MeToo movement.
So it never occurred to me that it would change. The first forty guys who got caught — I knew almost all of them. I believe every single woman. I believe it because I was a girl. And men, even the best men, the most well intended men, the smartest men, by which I mean the men I have carefully selected to be my friends?
Men cannot understand this. You do not understand what people are talking about. Because when I was young, most of my friends who were girls who had to work were waitresses. And I would never be a waitress. You make about the same money, maybe make a little more, being a waitress. That was every single restaurant in New York. That was every single girl. That was every single girl! That was the price of the job, [and] that was every job.
So what if the accused guys — many of whom she knows — lost their jobs? Or a computer. Or Twitter or Facebook or email or any of that stuff. At one point, she looked up at three people at the photoshoot, including me, all of whom were glancing at our phones. She made each of us answer. She insisted that nothing we were doing was important, except for the one person who was writing a work email.
This is the problem. But the more you stay logged on, the more Fran can stay logged off. And that is, like, every five minutes. Believer: An Interview with Fran Lebowitz Interview: The Voice: Fran Lebowitz Send a message to up to three recipients. First email is required, the following two are optional.
German Edition - Forthcoming! Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Real Time with Bill Maher. Pretend It's a City trailer. Christiane Amanpour and Company. They have it all over Europe. Can it be done quickly in this country? Who loves their health insurance? No one really wants health insurance. People want health care. They want a car. I think the popularity of Bernie Sanders just has to do with his shouting, which people seem to mistake for some sort of intellectual energy.
It drives me crazy. And most of the things he says should be free, I agree with him. Public colleges should be free. They were, up until the late seventies, in New York. Someone has to explain: colleges were free, but they were paid for by taxes. Take my taxes and please pay for free colleges.
Please do not take my taxes and give it to Carnival Cruise Line. I agree with him. I agree with these ideas. He just yells. Go to Vermont, and, when you get there, take an eighteen-year-old and put them on a bus and send them to New York. I have always really disliked Joe Biden, mainly because of the Anita Hill hearings, which I did not have to be reminded of during the Kavanaugh hearings.
I remembered it very well and I was appalled. And because he turned Delaware into a cesspool of usury. But I was so happy when he started winning. And that to me was sad.
I never thought Michael Bloomberg had a single chance of getting the nomination. It is a stupid amount of money for a person to have, and it should be taken away in taxes. You earn fifteen dollars an hour. You steal that kind of money. Did you take any pleasure in seeing that the only place he won was American Samoa?
I did. Speaking of former New York mayors, what happened to Giuliani? Was he always this insane? This idea that Giuliani was some sort of great mayor is absurd.
Giuliani was the first person I remember who started this kind of poisonous politics of nostalgia, which is really just racism, at its core. I want to switch topics and ask you a bit about Toni Morrison.
Everyone felt the loss of her, but largely as a literary icon or as an author they loved. You experienced it as a friend. The two of you seem like such an odd couple. What drew you together? The second we met we became incredibly close friends. You used to talk with her on the phone every day. What kinds of things did you talk about? Toni, who loved detective stories and trials and stuff like that, told me that the Menendez brothers were innocent.
One of them had gone to Princeton for, like, five minutes, during which time Toni had met him. And Toni was a much nicer person than me. My meeting someone does not necessarily make me like them, but to Toni it does. The Menendez trial was one of the first televised trials, and Toni and I watched every single day on the telephone together. And the trial started at noon, because it was in L.
But what is the right way to think about this? While one is a novel titled Exterior Signs of Wealth , purportedly about rich people who want to be artists and artists who want to be rich, the other is called Progress, which was first excerpted in Vanity Fair in , but is yet to be completed.
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