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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/for-many-of-us-especially-women-the-gap-between-what-we-want-or-need/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

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## More by Lee Smith

> [“And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/and-i-belive-i-am-too-and-if-you-think-that-is-awful-then-you-dont/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/certainly-i-was-a-very-religious-child-a-deeply-weird-and-very/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/i-have-always-been-interested-in-religion-especially-in-forms-of/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/born-virginia-marshall-but-nicknamed-gig-my-mother-was-a-home/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came down to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/i-had-always-dreamed-of-living-in-chapel-hill-when-i-was-a-college/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/i-think-what-happens-to-young-writers-is-that-they-use-up-every-life/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/i-am-so-sorry-to-see-the-state-of-reading-in-such-decline-i-think-it/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [“...for in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/for-in-the-world-of-the-mad-time-is-not-a-continuum-but-a-fluid/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [“For once I am living my life rather than watching it pass in review.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/for-once-i-am-living-my-life-rather-than-watching-it-pass-in-review/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/i-had-before-me-an-object-lesson-i-thought-two-ways-to-face-the-world/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [“Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/is-any-story-not-always-the-narrator-s-story-in-the-end/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [“My belief is that we have only one life, that this is all there is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/my-belief-is-that-we-have-only-one-life-that-this-is-all-there-is/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/to-much-has-happened-too-fast-dear-diary-what-i-want-is-for-nothing/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [“this point I could not show myself, of course, or all would”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/this-point-i-could-not-show-myself-of-course-or-all-would/)

[Lee Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-smith/)

> [“Perhaps any life is such: different stories like different strands, each distinct in itself, each true, yet wound together to form one rope, one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-smith/perhaps-any-life-is-such-different-stories-like-different-strands/)

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