Barbie is just a doll.
Mary Schmich

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
Mary Schmich

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.
Mary Schmich

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
Mary Schmich

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
Mary Schmich

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Mary Schmich

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
Mary Schmich

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Mary Schmich

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
Mary Schmich

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Mary Schmich


The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
Mary Schmich

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Mary Schmich

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
Mary Schmich

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Mary Schmich