Fran Lebowitz
In recognition of her ties to her home state, Fran Lebowitz received the New Jersey Hall of Fame award, an honor that connects back to the Morristown roots where her story begins.
Lebowitz was born in Morristown, New Jersey, on October 27, 1950, and attended Morristown High School. She went on to work across several overlapping fields, taking up roles as a writer, journalist, humorist, actor, and public speaker. She worked in English throughout her career, and her output as an author ran alongside her work as a journalist and her activity as an orator and public speaker. Among the works associated with her name is Metropolitan Life, a notable title from her writing career. Her range across writing, speaking, and acting made her a presence in more than one professional arena, and her identity as a United States citizen shaped the context in which she produced her work.
The New Jersey Hall of Fame award remains a concrete marker of the regard her home state has for her contributions. Metropolitan Life stands as the notable work the record attaches to her name, and her roles as writer, journalist, humorist, actor, and public speaker form the outline of a career that stretched across multiple platforms and formats.
Quotes by Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz's insights on:
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.
Romantic love is a mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw...what starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same tie that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.
If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal."
Romantic love is a mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw...What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love.
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking a candy from a baby' has never tried taking a candy from a baby
