Quotes by Women Memoirists

Anybody who grows up in the South may have to reckon, some time or another, with being born again.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

Shirley Hazzard

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Possibility, infinity, beauty — none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.