What Every Young Woman Should Know

Asocial insider in Washington describes two friends who arrived with plenty of money and connections and entertained for the simple pleasure of being with friends. “Because they got involved socially without anything to gain, people wondered what the hell they were up to.” Lesson One: Inviting people over because you like them is anti-social. Entertaining in Washington is no laughing matter.

So how does a young woman make it onto page one of the Style section? Easy. She should be brilliant, witty, charming, beautiful, and in possession of a ten-point plan to solve Mexico’s debt problem. Second question: How does an ordinary young woman make it into the Style section? Here, like any wretched New York heiress, she must fall back on money (in extreme circumstances, her own).

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Marianne Szegedy-Maszak

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Asocial insider in Washington describes two friends who arrived with plenty of money and connections and entertained for the simple pleasure of being with friends. “Because they got involved socially without anything to gain, people wondered what the hell they were up to.” Lesson One: Inviting people over because you like them is anti-social. Entertaining in Washington is no laughing matter.

So how does a young woman make it onto page one of the Style section? Easy. She should be brilliant, witty, charming, beautiful, and in possession of a ten-point plan to solve Mexico’s debt problem. Second question: How does an ordinary young woman make it into the Style section? Here, like any wretched New York heiress, she must fall back on money (in extreme circumstances, her own).