Patricia Marx
Patricia Marx
Patricia Marx is an American humorist and writer. She currently works as a staff writer for The New Yorker, and teaches at Princeton University and 92nd Street Y...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
alone began confident
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
groups mammals males
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.
long waiting wells
Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waiting
serious littles embarrassed
Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
unknown-person persons concepts
I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
chinese capitalism
The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
practice surfing stranger
Couch surfing refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.
sometimes journalist i-can
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
waiting bombs nuclear
Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.
christmas people cards
Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know.
pretty-woman comedy decided
Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy,
stupid coffee land
But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.
trouble bigs
There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.
blessed dazzle buoys
I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat.