Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything. — Elizabeth Berg Clock Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I hope to show the great worth of women. So far as I'm concerned, we're still underappreciated. — Elizabeth Berg Feminism Copy Share Image
“The one to tell. The one to be told by. For him, that was marriage.” — Elizabeth Berg Marriage Copy Share Image
You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Did she ever think of that, that things experienced in ways different from hers were equally valuable? That the way that he… — Elizabeth Berg Heart Copy Share Image
“Frank, saying, Who cares what happens before we’re born and after we die? The question is, what do we do in the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Arthur thinks that, above all, aging means the abandonment of criticism and the taking on of compassionate acceptance.” — Elizabeth Berg Aging Copy Share Image
I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I… — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
“You know before you know, of course. You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks… — Elizabeth Berg Dryer Copy Share Image
Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about… — Elizabeth Berg Being 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
You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Now he understood. After a while, pain simply stopped. It was as though your mind was able to create a firewall beyond… — Elizabeth Berg Loss Copy Share Image
“mostly, you only make a change, the balding chinese man tells me. I stare at him for a moment, uncomprehending, wondering if… — Elizabeth Berg Change Copy Share Image
“These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what… — Elizabeth Berg Grandmother Copy Share Image
“I am so often struck by what we do not do, all of us. And I am also, now, so acutely aware… — Elizabeth Berg Passage of time Copy Share Image
Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I… — Elizabeth Berg Experience Copy Share Image
“By now I was feeling the shame but also defiance. Like here, I'm carrying the banner for all of you who cut… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror… — Elizabeth Berg Aging Copy Share Image
It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems like a little moment brings a whole world with it.” — Elizabeth Berg Moment 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 Copy Share Image
“This is not a novel about a woman leaving home, but rather a human being finding her way back.” — Elizabeth Berg Books Copy Share Image
Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me. — Elizabeth Berg Book 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 Copy Share Image
There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged… — Elizabeth Berg Burden Copy Share Image
I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“She thinks it was Margaret Atwood who said that wanting to meet a writer because you like their work was like wanting… — Elizabeth Berg Writer Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's… — 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 Copy Share Image
“But you know what usually happens when you take a vacation to a place that galvanizes you and makes you feel like… — Elizabeth Berg Change your life 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 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 Heart Copy Share Image
