"Like everything else, Preppiness begins in the home."

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Source : Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing

Lisa Birnbach

“I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?”
“Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.”
“Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.”
“What a comfort is friendship in this world.”
“I get on Twitter, one of my routines during the day, if I'm home is, I wake up, get a cup of coffee, turn on the Weather Channel and I'll look at what people are saying to me on Twitter on my phone.”
“The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.”
“The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean.”
“I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.”

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