The Olsen Twins Are Their Generation's Elena Ferrante

“They don’t tweet (at least not on Twitter accounts we know about). They don’t use Facebook (that we know of). If they party, it’s not at clubs we’ve ever heard of; if they have unfortunate political views, well, they’re keeping them to themselves.”
 — I did not wake up this morning thinking it would be the day I discovered that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were my new heroes, but life is full of surprises. The rest of this piece is about the Instagram account for their clothes collection or whatever, but for me the real takeaway is that Ashley and Mary-Kate are object lessons in the seemingly unattainable skill of shutting the fuck up and staying shut the fuck up, and their stunning facility in that area is without a doubt their greatest accomplishment.