Maureen Howard

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

— Maureen Howard

“From above, start with the privileged view. ”

— Maureen Howard

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

— Maureen Howard

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

— Maureen Howard

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

— Maureen Howard

Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

— Maureen Howard

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

— Maureen Howard

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

— Maureen Howard

Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

— Maureen Howard

If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old…

— Maureen Howard

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it…

— Maureen Howard

Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though…

— Maureen Howard

When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by…

— Maureen Howard

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the…

— Maureen Howard

It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate…

— Maureen Howard

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally…

— Maureen Howard

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

— Maureen Howard

I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging…

— Maureen Howard

Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we…

— Maureen Howard