Alice Steinbach

“I had forgotten how wonderful it is to stand on a bridge and catch the scent of rain in the air. I…

— Alice Steinbach

“Life is like that I thought, as I turned the corner to my building. Freedom has its danger as well as its…

— Alice Steinbach

“Except for the primitive markers of day and night, time lay ahead of me in continuous, undefined mass.”

— Alice Steinbach

What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us…

— Alice Steinbach

“It used to surprise me, the intensity with which I still remembered these distant memories. But when I entered my fifties...I understood…

— Alice Steinbach

“A scene," Mary told us, "is a moment when there is some form of tension. A scene leads to the next scene.…

— Alice Steinbach

Women, I learned, adapted. At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I…

— Alice Steinbach

“Never mind that I hadn't a clue which path to follow or whether, to echo Robert Frost, the one I took would…

— Alice Steinbach

“Being a student meant always looking up to someone wiser and always measuring yourself against that wisdom and knowledge.”

— Alice Steinbach

“By then I'd knocked around enough to know that, in the end, what adds up to a life is nothing more than…

— Alice Steinbach

“As I set out each day, I felt like a young child again. One who hadn't yet learned the rules of manmade…

— Alice Steinbach

I'm a woman in search on an adventure

— Alice Steinbach

“His presence made me feel self-concious: of my appearance, of the way I was sitting, of my movements and gestures...It was the…

— Alice Steinbach

“I guess I'm too selfish to travel well with other people," I told Anne later.”

— Alice Steinbach

“And like any group thrown together in a strange situation, we developed the sort of we're-in-this-together, for-better-or-for-worse camaraderie that I found appealingly…

— Alice Steinbach

“Things happen, I thought, and we respond. That's what it all comes down to. To believe anything else, as far as I…

— Alice Steinbach

“Most of us, I suppose, have had at one time or another the impulse to leave behind our daily routines and responsibilities…

— Alice Steinbach

It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and…

— Alice Steinbach

“There's such joy and fearless in that face, isn't there? It's like the look you see on a child's face before the…

— Alice Steinbach

“The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares," [Freya] wrote. "To avoid corners altogether is, after all,…

— Alice Steinbach

“there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of…

— Alice Steinbach

“Paris guards her inner beauty from the casual observer. To find it one must look beyond the façades. It is true of…

— Alice Steinbach

The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave…

— Alice Steinbach

“What if more of life could be like that? Like the last slow dance, where, to echo T.S. Eliot, a lifetime burns…

— Alice Steinbach

“What adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.”

— Alice Steinbach