# City of Girls Tags: #literature ## Metadata * Author: [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B07HZ2Q1MK * ISBN: 1594634734 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HZ2Q1MK * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07HZ2Q1MK) ## Highlights You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. — location: [60](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07HZ2Q1MK&location=60) ^ref-8640 --- had recently been excused from Vassar College, on account of never having attended classes and thereby failing every single one of my freshman exams. I was not quite as dumb as my grades made me look, but apparently it really doesn’t help if you don’t study. Looking back on it now, I cannot fully recall what I’d been doing with my time during those many hours that I ought to have spent in class, but—knowing me—I suppose I was terribly preoccupied with my appearance. — location: [78](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07HZ2Q1MK&location=78) ^ref-40754 --- And there were girls at Vassar who were bold academic explorers, destined to become doctors and lawyers long before many women did that sort of thing. I should have been interested in them, but I wasn’t. (I couldn’t tell any of them apart, for one thing. They all wore the same shapeless wool skirts that looked as though they’d been constructed out of old sweaters, and that just made my spirits low.) — location: [87](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07HZ2Q1MK&location=87) ^ref-32836 --- Billy wrote and starred in the revues; Peg produced and directed them. The couple never had any highfalutin ambitions. They were just having a good time and avoiding more typical adult responsibilities. But despite all the effort they made not to be successful, success accidentally hunted them down and captured them anyhow. — location: [250](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07HZ2Q1MK&location=250) ^ref-10348 ---