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> [I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/i-ve-finally-learned-not-to-want-things-i-cannot-have/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

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## More by Maureen Howard

> [When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/when-i-go-home-my-mother-and-i-play-a-cannibal-game-we-eat-each-other/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/the-golden-arches-of-mcdonald-s-rise-glorious-across-the-landscape/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [ Even when I was a grown woman, he \[Father\] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/even-when-i-was-a-grown-woman-he-father-would-leave-me-on-the-edge-of/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/i-ve-finally-learned-not-to-want-things-i-cannot-have/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/notable-american-women-is-an-enchanting-and-moving-novel-like-italo/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/the-catholic-church-with-its-foreshortened-american-history-and/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/wouldn-t-a-laugh-serve-us-better-than-to-battle-it-out-with-our/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/i-have-often-caught-sight-of-myself-my-spine-humped-over-defining-my/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/there-s-a-bad-odor-about-a-man-who-s-been-betrayed/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/hindsight-is-common-and-bland-as-boiled-potatoes/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [“From above, start with the privileged view. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/from-above-start-with-the-privileged-view/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/acceptance-is-the-word-we-must-substitute-for-dependence-in-dealing/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/the-part-we-play-is-not-as-we-want-it-but-as-we-are-made-with-the/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/none-of-the-adults-i-knew-ever-touched-in-public-much-less-kneaded/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

> [It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate bone structure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-howard/it-was-unavoidable-my-writing-i-feel-i-had-no-choice-in-the-matter-no/)

[Maureen Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-howard/)

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