Lisa Alther Quotes (10 Quotes)

Dying was apparently a weaning process all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

That's the risk you take if you change that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

She was okay. There was nothing wrong with her that a vasectomy of the vocal cords would not fix.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.