Caroline Knapp

The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations…

— Caroline Knapp

Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning…

— Caroline Knapp

Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient…

— Caroline Knapp

Cats are narcissistic. Their needs come before ours. They don't understand the word "No." They carry themselves with that aloof, arrogant sense…

— Caroline Knapp

Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and…

— Caroline Knapp

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not…

— Caroline Knapp

“Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans--the ability to make you feel valued just by being you--and it was something of…

— Caroline Knapp

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in…

— Caroline Knapp

“That these mandates exist is hardly news, but their cumulative effect on women’s lives tends to be examined through a fragmented lens,…

— Caroline Knapp

“Addiction to alcohol is also a neurological phenomenon, the result of a complex set of molecular alterations that take place in the…

— Caroline Knapp

“And so I was scared. I was scared of my own sexual hunger, which felt so secretive and uncharted, and I was…

— Caroline Knapp

“For a long time, when it's working, the drink feels like a path to a kind of self-enlightenment, something that turns us…

— Caroline Knapp

Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.

— Caroline Knapp

I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like.…

— Caroline Knapp