A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- She dismisses rumors of spending $30,000 on clothes by mocking the logic. She implies she would need to wear expensive items daily to spend that much.
- In plain terms
- She jokes that she couldn't spend that much on clothes unless she wore expensive underwear.
- What can you take from it?
- Ridicule can be used to deflect false accusations or rumors.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you respond to unfair rumors?
- Does wealth change how people treat you?
Another view
It relies on wealth assumptions that alienate ordinary readers.
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