5 Feet of Fury

‘Fran Lebowitz is always right’

Joy Setton writes:

What is it that allows her to be a person rather than a persona in public? Perhaps being devoid of the desperate desire to be liked.

Not caring what we think, she is able to be so truthful—which is a grand way of saying that she speaks what is obvious.

She says things that are obvious but true, but that no one says, or not enough, or that no one hears.