Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“we all get humiliated at some point or another during our lives. the trick is not to let it make you resentful…

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“People are only taken seriously as they take themselves.”

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“people without sense of humor aren't much fun to be around, no matter how far they've gotten.”

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“trouble with people is, they always think they have to talk.”

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“i thought about the miseries people conceal and how they manage to survive.”

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't…

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more…

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

The key to life is imagination.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about…

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

I may not remember, but I never forget.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In…

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a…

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“i'm out to make difference in the world, to lead the way by giving much and giving often.”

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have…

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock