“Also they have this nervous feeling that anyone with tits like that must be vulgar. Or insensitive. There I sit, reading my Proust and minding my p’s and q’s and keeping up with current oddities – no slouch more or less – and I see them shrink from my gaze as though I were a tramp.”

“Also they have this nervous feeling that anyone with tits like that must be vulgar. Or insensitive. There I sit, reading my Proust and minding my p’s and q’s and keeping up with current oddities – no slouch more or less – and I see them shrink from my gaze as though I were a tramp.”

— Eve Babitz