“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
Tag: All Time Favourites
A Family Affair
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman of childbearing age must be in want of a husband"
The Gold Diggers
“We all know our final destination but we have no idea what will cross our path as we journey there.”
You Will Be Safe Here
“Above all this the stars shine."
Conjure Women
“Cain and Abel were not brothers, not twins. They were...two sides of the same person, good and evil warring against its own inclinations. The same struggle was borne out in every person, over and over, from the very most beginning of time, and you could only answer for yourself which brother would win.”
Salt Slow
“In the midst of all these haunted people, she sat alone, without a ghost yet longing for one, her writing like a clasp of fingers around empty air.”
Girl, Woman, Other
“Be a person with knowledge, not just opinions.”
The Woman Next Door
"Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning."
Such A Fun Age
"But people do pay other people to act like part of the family. That doesn't mean it's not a transaction.”
I Feel Bad About My Neck
“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.”
