“Men made mistakes and when they asked forgiveness, women forgave. It happened every day.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“What would you have today if you woke up with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?” He wondered” — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations. — J. Courtney Sullivan Communication Copy Share Image
I'm from outside of Boston, and in Boston, people are so passionate about their Irishness. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
As a little girl, my dollhouse allowed me to imagine a big, perfect, grown-up life in which I'd be effortlessly domestic. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men… — J. Courtney Sullivan Feminism Copy Share Image
A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how… — J. Courtney Sullivan Bird Copy Share Image
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author… — J. Courtney Sullivan Books Copy Share Image
In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because… — J. Courtney Sullivan Boys Copy Share Image
“Bree knew this habit of hers rankled Lara more than any other--her ability to make a decision and announce that there would… — J. Courtney Sullivan Decision making Copy Share Image
The first book I bought was 'Anne of Green Gables,' an edition that is beautiful and complete - one I hope to… — J. Courtney Sullivan Beautiful Copy Share Image
For my seventh birthday, my parents gave me a plain, unfinished wooden dollhouse. It had six empty rooms, two floors, a staircase,… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever,… — J. Courtney Sullivan Contradictions Copy Share Image
Early on in the writing process, there is sometimes this temptation to write around the central drama instead of just aiming for… — J. Courtney Sullivan Drama Copy Share Image
I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“She didn't have a single friend on earth to see her off. She had outlived them all.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Friend Copy Share Image
We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a… — J. Courtney Sullivan Child Copy Share Image
Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate. — J. Courtney Sullivan Being a woman Copy Share Image
“Motherhood was a physical act as much as an emotional one. It took every part of you.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Emotional Copy Share Image
I call my mother every day for things: 'How long do you cook an egg for?' Or, 'Can you remind me of… — J. Courtney Sullivan Day Copy Share Image
I read 'Love in the Time of Cholera' when I was 19, and I still think about the characters. — J. Courtney Sullivan Books Copy Share Image
One of the best parts of being a writer is getting to peer into other worlds - even if you aren't going… — J. Courtney Sullivan Being Copy Share Image
“even if there was no God there was always the ocean- before you and after you, breathing in and out for all… — J. Courtney Sullivan Eternity Copy Share Image
On Saturdays, I get up early, spread out my notes from the week on the kitchen table, and create stories from them. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Heart Copy Share Image
I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start. — J. Courtney Sullivan Book Copy Share Image
“Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Life Copy Share Image
“I think we're just different sorts of people, me and you. You're a planner. Everything has to be perfectly aligned before you… — J. Courtney Sullivan Baby Copy Share Image
“And then there were the things Sally knew her mother would have loved. Those, too, made it easy to imagine how she… — J. Courtney Sullivan Life Copy Share Image
If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“These fucking women really piss me off,' April said. 'Because instead of being elated by the thought of making their own happiness… — J. Courtney Sullivan April Copy Share Image
My relationship with the 'Baby-Sitters Club' series bordered on addiction, and my mom got me heavily into the Trixie Belden mysteries as… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“You all seem to think you should marry someone when you feel this intense emotion, which you call love. And then you… — J. Courtney Sullivan Birth Copy Share Image
She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The outside pressure to be married was intense. This had surprised her a decade ago, but now she thought she understood. People… — J. Courtney Sullivan Marriage Copy Share Image
A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want… — J. Courtney Sullivan Affair Copy Share Image
She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love,… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, for example, everybody on our street was Irish. And all the girls did Irish step dancing. It… — J. Courtney Sullivan Dance Copy Share Image
