Quote of the Day

When things were more civilized:

[Edna] Chase was one of New York's legendary editors. A stickler for clarity, she argued that if she could not understand something, how could her readers be expected to? Her rejection letters made the toughest writers wilt and she demanded propriety at all times. After a young editor tried to commit suicide by throwing herself under a subway train, Chase remarked when the woman eventually returned to work: "We at Vogue don't throw ourselves under subway trains, my dear. If we must, we take sleeping pills."