“Who are we and were are we going? Why are we, with all our "progress" so limited in understanding and sympathy and the ability to give each other real freedom? Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“And this led to another round of mapping as we separated men from women, finding that while the male ethos usually represented the culture… — Lily King Copy Share Image
When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone… — Lily King Copy Share Image
When I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it.… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only” — Lily King Copy Share Image
I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“-Can we have one day when we don't have to talk about the meaning of life? -I don't think we ever talk about anything… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing,… — Lily King Copy Share Image
There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy. — Lily King Copy Share Image
