And I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925). copy citation

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Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
Source The Great Gatsby
Topic women foolishness
Date 1925
Language English
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“I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'all right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.»
«You see I think everything's terrible anyhow,» she went on in a convinced way. «Everybody thinks so — the most advanced people. And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.»” source

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