My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Todd's mother had several children by different fathers, and Todd [Willingham] had been abandoned in California. ... He's a good-looking man. He… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Everything was a miracle until we solved it. ... the first man who ever saw a flying fish probably thought he was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have been broken… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. Maybe it's just… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.) — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image