Rachel Cohn Quotes

Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.

I actually hate shopping.

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

I despise shopping and department stores.

I shop more than most women.

My mother likes to say that I was conceived to shop - not just born to shop. My whole life as a child was following her and her sister and friends around on her shopping trips.

I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.

A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn't fit, you can't exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags...

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

If I like something, I get it and I put it on.

Bad shopping habits die hard.

I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

The mall is my life.

Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

I'm addicted to the deal, to the next thing. It's irresistible.

I hate to shop.

Women just love to shop.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.