Daily Inspiration Quote by Elizabeth Taylor

It lands like a throwaway line, but it’s a tidy act of self-defense from a woman who spent decades being treated as public property. “Autobiographies about me” is the hinge: autobiographies are supposed to be self-authored, confessional, definitive. Taylor flips the genre into a joke about ownership. If everyone else is writing your “life,” then the self becomes a franchise - a product line with multiple competing labels.

The intent isn’t just to be funny; it’s to withdraw consent without looking wounded. “I haven’t read” performs indifference, a cool refusal to validate the cottage industry of tell-alls, ghostwritten cash-ins, and unauthorized “insider” accounts that trailed celebrity culture long before Instagram made that dynamic constant. She’s signaling that the narrative marketplace can churn all it wants; she won’t dignify it by acting like the latest version has authority.

The subtext is sharper: you can’t be betrayed by a book you don’t open. Taylor lived through tabloid peaks where her marriages, illnesses, and very face were treated as communal discussion topics. This line reclaims control in the only way a megastar often can - by treating the noise as beneath her, while still acknowledging it exists.

There’s also a sly wink at the audience: we’re implicated. The joke works because we recognize the absurdity of “about me” autobiographies, and because we know exactly why they sell. Taylor makes the exploitation visible, then steps out of frame.