40 Quotes by Wendy Wax

At forty-five not even expensive highlights and a boatload of Lycra could disguise the fact that her body had given up its struggle against gravity.

We honeymooned on the SS Franklin,” Max said. “We were the onboard entertainment even though it was Millie’s first time onstage. When I saw this house for sale a couple years later, I knew we had to have it.” “It reminds me of the Titanic,” Nicole said under her breath. “Post-iceberg. Assuming it had mowed down a flock of flamingos first.

They prided themselves on being honest with each other, but they were women. Sometimes they put protecting feelings above the truth. Or looking self-sufficient above asking for help.

Madeline Singer had recently achieved two things that surprised her: a senior citizen discount; and the legal right to date.

I’ve been pinching our pennies so tightly that Abraham Lincoln’s face is imprinted on my fingers.

The problem began with her height, which was too short to command respect, and was compounded by china-doll features, an oversize bust, and the kind of blue-eyed blondness that caused complete strangers to deduct IQ points and to speak to her slowly. Using really small words.

They looked at each other. “I don’t understand it. But I know who sent it.” Maddie Singer’s thumbs and her iPhone were often incompatible. She claimed she’d been a lot more comfortable with her smartphone before it got so smart.

I got my first driver’s license in Michigan when I turned twelve.

There isn’t a lot a mother won’t do for her child, Kyra. It’s sort of hardwired into our DNA.