The White Album by Joan Didion: “I had left California equipped with two 'good' suits, a box of unanswered mail, Elizabeth Hardwick's Seduction and Betrayal, Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, six Judy Blume books and my eleven-year-old daughter.”
On Women by Susan Sontag: “...that most remarkable of recent contributions to the feminist imagination of history, Elizabeth Hardwick's Seduction and Betrayal.”