I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have? — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making… — 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 Copy Share Image
As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved.… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable… — Elizabeth Berg 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 Copy Share Image
There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it’s tissue paper. And I think the times it’s tissue paper are when you need to keep… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean? — 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 fresh flowers… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I don’t think Martha’s so bad. I think I want her for a friend instead of you. When I look at her magazine, I… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone… — 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 to appreciate… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
