I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of… — Francine du Plessix Gray Book Copy Share Image
The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one. — Francine du Plessix Gray Choice Copy Share Image
“Ah women, women, my life's plague and chief delight!” — Francine du Plessix Gray Life Copy Share Image
All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and… — Francine du Plessix Gray Deviousness Copy Share Image
I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am… — Francine du Plessix Gray Birth Copy Share Image
“...in Aristotle...leisure is a far more noble, spiritual goal than work...leisure is pursued solely for its own sake...: the pleasures of music… — Francine du Plessix Gray Daily work Copy Share Image
The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death. — Francine du Plessix Gray Accepting Copy Share Image
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Books Copy Share Image
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others. — Francine du Plessix Gray Dream Copy Share Image
I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies. — Francine du Plessix Gray Knows Copy Share Image
one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward. — Francine du Plessix Gray Forgiveness Copy Share Image
I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached… — Francine du Plessix Gray Death Copy Share Image
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis… — Francine du Plessix Gray Art Copy Share Image
If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family… — Francine du Plessix Gray Bird Copy Share Image
I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny. — Francine du Plessix Gray Love Copy Share Image
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable. — Francine du Plessix Gray Bearable Copy Share Image
how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything. — Francine du Plessix Gray Death Copy Share Image
The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity… — Francine du Plessix Gray Capacity Copy Share Image
As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend. — Francine du Plessix Gray Catching Copy Share Image
Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war. — Francine du Plessix Gray Mines Copy Share Image
I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil.… — Francine du Plessix Gray Different Copy Share Image
The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic… — Francine du Plessix Gray Aloof Copy Share Image
Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh. — Francine du Plessix Gray Dramatic Copy Share Image
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