Quotes by Mary Schmich

• Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
• Barbie is just a doll.
• Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
• Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.
• Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
• Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
• Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
• You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
• You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
• TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
• In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
• Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
• Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
• Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
• The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.