and now i know my place; we’re all just pieces in their games

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

Zelda Fitzgerald.
It’s funny, but I like being “pink and helpless” - When I know I seem that way, I feel terribly competent - and superior. I keep thinking, “Now those men think I’m purely decorative, and they’re just fools for not knowing better” - and I love being rather unfathomable.
”I’m not smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people. Like if I were to sit down and think, ‘OK, I’m really famous, how am I going to conduct myself in public?’ I wouldn’t know who that person would be! It would be a lot easier if I could, but I can’t.”