Life's Pleasures Quote by Joely Fisher

It lands like a breezy confession, but the lineup is too curated to be accidental: “French boys,” “wine,” then “psychology.” Joely Fisher stacks three coming-of-age signifiers that each carry a different kind of cultural permission. The first two are shorthand for glamour and misbehavior with a passport stamp - not just romance and indulgence, but romance and indulgence with an alibi. “French” does a lot of work here: it codes sophistication and permissiveness in the American imagination, letting the speaker flirt with scandal while staying adorable.

Then the pivot: “I studied psychology.” It’s the snapback to respectability, a self-aware move that reframes the earlier items as experience-gathering rather than recklessness. The subtext is control. Fisher gets to narrate pleasure while insisting she’s also the kind of person who analyzes pleasure, who can translate impulse into insight. That’s a particularly showbiz form of credibility: the performer who admits messiness but won’t be reduced to it.

The verb choice matters. “Took up” sounds like a hobby, not a heartbreak. It’s funny because it treats desire like an elective course - casual, a little brazen, and deliberately unserious. That lightness is protective: it keeps the audience from probing too hard, and it keeps the speaker from seeming either victimized or vulgar.

Contextually, it echoes a familiar late-20th-century celebrity script: the young woman expected to be enticing, worldly, and “deep” all at once. The joke is that she’s offering a curriculum vitae of self-making, with the punchline that her education included both bodies and books.