I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.