Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
Familiarity breeds content.
I am an affirmative action hire.
Speech is the voice of the heart.
We are awash in the revealed world.
Not writing at all leads to nothing.
The purse is the mirror of the soul.
Today is the only guarantee you get.
A finished person is a boring person.
Testosterone does not have to be toxic.
It is so easy to exist instead of live.
We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.
My mother was an incredibly loving mother.
Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
I've always had a certain facility with words.
Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.
Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.
Look at the view and you'll never be disappointed.
I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.
When I'm falling, my girlfriends are my soft landing.
It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.
In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.
I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.
Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.
My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.
Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.
Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.
Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.
So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.
Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.
Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.
I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.
Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.
