Truthfully, I was amazed by their reaction and mine. 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.