"We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls"
About this Quote
The subtext is a familiar show-business origin story without the cliches: before the red carpets and the larger-than-life image, there was a life governed by shared shelves and turn-taking. Sellecca isn’t asking for pity. She’s signaling solidarity with anyone who’s ever treated a closet like a storage unit, a dressing room, and a confessional. The specificity keeps it credible; “one closet” is almost funnier than “one bedroom,” because it implies the true scarcity isn’t sleep space, it’s identity space. Who gets to be messy? Who gets to be seen?
Contextually, the quote also captures a pre-luxury era of aspiring careers - the kind of young-adult hustle where roommates substitute for family, and constraint becomes character-building. It’s nostalgia with teeth: affection for the chaos, and a quiet reminder that “making it” often starts with not enough.
Quote Details
| Topic | Friendship |
|---|---|
| Source | Help us find the source |
| Cite | Cite this Quote |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Sellecca, Connie. (n.d.). We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-had-a-one-bedroom-one-bathroom-one-closet-40767/
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Sellecca, Connie. "We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-had-a-one-bedroom-one-bathroom-one-closet-40767/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-had-a-one-bedroom-one-bathroom-one-closet-40767/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.


