6 Quotes by Kathy Cooperman

Time is unkind to all of us, but it is particularly sadistic to women. A man’s physical prowess may dwindle with time, but he has compensations: stature, wealth, eminence. Men grow distinguished while women simply grow old.

Annabelle, please don’t take this the wrong way, but there’s something very moral about you. You’re like an Amish woman with an invisible prayer bonnet on your head. People don’t need to see the bonnet on you. They can sense it.

And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She watered and fed her children, but she had no interest in playing with or listening to them.

How did the nursery rhyme go? “Old Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard and found she was fresh out of blow.” Something like that. Annie.

Joan Collins once said that being beautiful was like being born rich and getting poorer every day.

The Six was everything that a book club book should be: short at two hundred pages, highbrow because it dealt with English history, and sexy because it focused on a man who had humped his way through half the English court. It was also critically acclaimed by the right people, meaning that the New York Times loved it but the masses did not.