For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is wide indeed, and we spend out lives trying to negotiate it. Trying to balance work and family, responsibilities… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing.” — Lee Smith Copy Share
Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a… — Lee Smith Copy Share
I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely… — Lee Smith Copy Share
Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of… — Lee Smith Copy Share
I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came down to… — Lee Smith Copy Share
I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for… — Lee Smith Copy Share
I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us… — Lee Smith Copy Share
“...for in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.” — Lee Smith Copy Share
“I had before me an object lesson, I thought: two ways to face the world. One way as embodied by this old woman—simple, unassuming,… — Lee Smith Copy Share
“To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all. I don't even want good things… — Lee Smith Copy Share
“Perhaps any life is such: different stories like different strands, each distinct in itself, each true, yet wound together to form one rope, one… — Lee Smith Copy Share
