From an early age, my father stressed the power of the image, and he encouraged me to carefully control my own. He advised me, for example, never to be photographed from below, an often unflattering angle for women. Liz Goldwyn Read Quote
Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it’s all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period. Liz Goldwyn Read Quote
When someone hears that I’ve written a book about 1897, I’m usually met with blank stares. And the first thing they say is, ‘Was there even an L.A. back then?’ A lot of people don’t even think there was a city before the movies appeared. That concept of Los Angeles is so strong in the popular imagination that celebrity overrides everything. Liz Goldwyn Read Quote
I feel like there’s something interesting to learn from anyone’s story, no matter their place in society. I think we’ve gotten really far away from that – we’re in such a celebrity-obsessed culture. Liz Goldwyn Read Quote
I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood – my first job – but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf. Liz Goldwyn Read Quote
I mix all different oils – my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I’m really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose – I think everyone should carry it. Liz Goldwyn Read Quote
In general, I’m fascinated by women who exist outside of society’s mores and values. Liz Goldwyn Read Quote
Every winter, I’m a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it’s normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s. Liz Goldwyn Read Quote
I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don’t fit into a box. When they ask what I do at a cocktail party, I either say I’m a Renaissance woman or I’m a high-level madam. Lately I’ve been more comfortable saying I’m an artist, because that can cover a lot of different things. Liz Goldwyn Read Quote
