Babbit

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“The industry is really conservative and doesn’t know how great things are, especially when they’re written and created by women, and about women,” Babbit said.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2020

“The producer I met with was like, ‘Hey, I decided to meet with you because Jennifer Garner keeps complaining that we’re not hiring any women,’” Babbit recalled.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2018

And little wonder: The film’s director, Jamie Babbit, has worked with Greer on her TV show Married and directed Lyonne in 1999 breakout But I’m a Cheerleader, and obtains from both actresses complexity and nuance.

From Time • Oct. 1, 2015

Novels like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit portrayed wealth and the self-made man in America, albeit in a critical fashion.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

At the long table, where sat Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, Babbit, and so on, I looked sharply for Mr. and Mrs. Lewis.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various