“People like to be addressed specificlly, it makes them important.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you’ll stay in a place you’ve outgrown. When” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.” — Elizabeth Berg Hope Copy Share Image
I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“It feels strange to see him; it's been a while. I feel as though I need to meet him all over again.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously. — Elizabeth Berg People Copy Share Image
The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
“Every day, Helen thought, so many people tap the bull on the shoulder and say, "Excuse me. I'm just going to grab… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections. — Elizabeth Berg Connections Copy Share Image
When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or… — Elizabeth Berg Apple pie Copy Share Image
“...what John likes best are the small and undramatic moments that make for a kind of easy comfort, for a feeling of… — Elizabeth Berg Moments Copy Share Image
Nurses don't get paid very much. It didn't take long to realize that I could make more as a writer. I loved… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I should have said “powder room.” That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Whenever Sadie sees engagement rings, she feels a strange mix of emotions: a kind of excitement mixed with a vague sadness. A… — Elizabeth Berg Engagement ring Copy Share Image
“Didn’t I tell you about her? She stuck her fingers in her vagina and then rubbed the stuff behind her ears. She… — Elizabeth Berg Vagina Copy Share Image
It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's… — Elizabeth Berg Body Copy Share Image
“She is her odd self. The kiln has been fired. She is a person persnickity about keeping her house clean, but not… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost.… — Elizabeth Berg World war 2 Copy Share Image
“It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true… — Elizabeth Berg Dreams Copy Share Image
“Only way I can get any shut-eye is to sleep on the floor.” “I see.” “It ain’t permanent,” he said. “I’m working… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive… — Elizabeth Berg Art Copy Share Image
It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Everybody has thoughts that shame them. You can’t control them coming in. But you don’t have to let them all out.” — Elizabeth Berg Shame Copy Share Image
Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore. — Elizabeth Berg Character Copy Share Image
As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part… — Elizabeth Berg Color Copy Share Image
“I like to do things in bed. I fold the laundry on the bed. Food tastes better to me when I'm under… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels." Marsha thinks about this. Then she says, "Not true." "I know," Tom says, and… — Elizabeth Berg Food Copy Share Image
“I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of… — Elizabeth Berg Church bells Copy Share Image
“She honestly wondered sometimes which fate was worse, death or standing behind a curtain and looking out at the street at all… — Elizabeth Berg Death Copy Share Image
“She understood the specific kind of appreciation that comes to a person witnessing a thing of beauty alone, how the spectacle seems… — Elizabeth Berg Beauty Copy Share Image
“Isn’t life funny. It could drive you crazy if you thought about it too much. Turn this way and that happens. Turn… — Elizabeth Berg Comedy Copy Share Image
“Well, I’ve said it often enough to others: there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“This is life, uh? We lose something here; we get something there. The trick is to stop looking in the old place… — Elizabeth Berg Life Copy Share Image
“Everybody makes mistakes, sometimes even before we get up in the morning. We can’t help but make mistakes. The important thing is… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
