White Glove Society Quotes

Wearing white gloves is a way of letting everyone know you don’t have to get your hands dirty working but instead have leisure time that you spend on clubs and committees and societies. Such airs are of the utmost importance to some town women—the wives of the judge, the bank president, the undertaker, the clergy—who are eager to set themselves apart from women of the hollows.

How the fuck can you coach a football team if you’ve never played football in your life?” he continued. “And I’m not talking pro. I’m talking at any level. They don’t have a clue. I don’t care how many hours they spent firing people at Time Inc. or Meredith Corporation. They had this stupid red/yellow/green system, which they explained to me like I was a five-year-old. I wanted to reach across the table, grab one of them, and throw him across the room. And you should have seen them when the press reports of their engagement started piling up. They were bug-eyed, like white-gloved society women who only want to be in the paper when they get married and when they die.” McKinsey