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11 Brazen Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes That Prove Why She Was The Original 'It Girl'

Zelda was widely considered a bundle of fire who had the ability to completely charm and captivate anyone who spoke to her. She was unapologetic, honest, and a little mad — making her one of literatures earliest "cool girl." 
Bianca Sparacino
September 1, 2016
“Excuse me for being so intellectual. I know you would prefer something nice and feminine and affectionate.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
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“She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.’”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
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“All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
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“The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens."”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
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“There’s nothing in all the world I want but you and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I’d just hate to live a sordid, colorless existence because you’d soon love me less and less and I’d do anything — anything — to keep your heart for my own. I don’t want to live—I want to love first, and live incidentally… Don’t—don’t ever think of the things you can’t give me. You’ve trusted me with the dearest heart of all—and it’s so damn much more than anybody else in all the world has ever had.’”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
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“And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
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“Nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
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“We quarrelled in the gray morning dew about morals; and made up over a red bathing suit.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
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“Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow? Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
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“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
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“She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
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