Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Mary Schmich

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

Barbie is just a doll.
Mary Schmich

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

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

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