3 December 2020 Candice Bergen Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it’s rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you’re just renting for a while.
3 December 2020 Candice Bergen People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don’t have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
3 December 2020 Candice Bergen I didn’t have a financial need, and I wasn’t very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
3 December 2020 Candice Bergen Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
3 December 2020 Candice Bergen I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
3 December 2020 Candice Bergen Not that we didn’t have close relationships with our parents – I’m very close to my mom – but parents didn’t think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
