Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. — Elizabeth Berg Agree Copy Share Image
“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.” — Elizabeth Berg Fear Copy Share Image
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. — Elizabeth Berg Been Copy Share Image
“If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.” — Elizabeth Berg Enough time Copy Share Image
“You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it’s tissue paper. And I think the times it’s tissue paper are when you need… — Elizabeth Berg Making a mistake Copy Share Image
“It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean? — Elizabeth Berg Giving Copy Share Image
“I should have said “powder room.” That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library,… — Elizabeth Berg Accident Copy Share Image
“I don’t think Martha’s so bad. I think I want her for a friend instead of you. When I look at her… — Elizabeth Berg Friendship Copy Share Image
*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart… — Elizabeth Berg Bother Copy Share Image
We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people… — Elizabeth Berg After death Copy Share Image
“How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet… — Elizabeth Berg Another woman Copy Share Image
As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around… — Elizabeth Berg Find Copy Share Image
If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd… — Elizabeth Berg Awe Copy Share Image
“When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.” — Elizabeth Berg Appreciation Copy Share Image
It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider… — Elizabeth Berg Book Copy Share Image
“Nothing helped until the day she took a tablet and pencil into the basement and moved the event out of her and… — Elizabeth Berg Loss Copy Share Image
“There are guys bleeding to death who don't know it, they're smiling, they're talking, they don't feel pain because they're in shock,… — Elizabeth Berg Death Copy Share Image
“Martha Raye slipped up to the colonel and she said, 'Sir, where do we eat?' He said, 'You mess with the men.'… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me--crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“You know...it's like you live your life opening doors. One after the other. You open a door onto a hallway, which leads… — Elizabeth Berg Life Copy Share Image
