Nobody has ever mistaken me for Pollyanna. By my mother s definition, being nice covers a lot of territory. If you can t say something nice about someone, don t say anything. It isn t nice. Nice girls don t stay out after midnight.
Nice girls don t wear lots of makeup.
Nice girls only wear white at their weddings. Being nice is mixed up with so many other concepts morality, politeness, nuturing. I m not a nice person, I repeated. My friends thought about it again. From the looks on their faces I knew I d crossed some invisible feminine line.