Judith Thurman

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing…

— Judith Thurman

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment…

— Judith Thurman

As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon…

— Judith Thurman

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript…

— Judith Thurman

“There's some instinctive attraction that draws you, as a writer, to your subject. And the attraction usually has to do with some…

— Judith Thurman

We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.

— Judith Thurman

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it…

— Judith Thurman

A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

— Judith Thurman

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than…

— Judith Thurman

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and…

— Judith Thurman

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

— Judith Thurman

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

— Judith Thurman

“You have to stand out and you have to fit in. And how you negotiate that tension really defines how fashionable you…

— Judith Thurman

If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it…

— Judith Thurman

Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake…

— Judith Thurman