I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts. — Lionel Shriver Delusion Copy Share Image
“Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?” — Lionel Shriver Children Copy Share Image
Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject… — Lionel Shriver Books Copy Share Image
Dieting is odious and can require years of determination and sacrifice. I entirely understand the impulse to say, 'Screw it,' and have… — Lionel Shriver Cake Copy Share Image
Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for… — Lionel Shriver Court Copy Share Image
“His face churned. That was the point, before he said a word, that he broke her heart. The contortion of those muscles… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
'The Feminine Mystique' goads me to gratitude that, thanks to forerunners like Betty Friedan, I've had the opportunity to pursue a career. — Lionel Shriver Career Copy Share Image
The fact that my clothing has been visually available to other people I do not find upsetting. The body is another matter.… — Lionel Shriver Available Copy Share Image
“I kept scrabbling around in myself for this new indescribable emotion, like stirring a crowded silverware drawer for the potato peeler, but… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you… — Lionel Shriver Assessment Copy Share Image
“This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen.” — Lionel Shriver Time Copy Share Image
While one can't always begrudge the wealth of people who have at least produced something of value, the rich of the financial… — Lionel Shriver Money Copy Share Image
I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating… — Lionel Shriver Alone Copy Share Image
“Lo, everything that made me pretty was intrinsic to motherhood, and my very desire that men find me attractive was the contrivance… — Lionel Shriver Motherhood Copy Share Image
“He'd been unable to discern whether this frantic bustle of hers was what it claimed to be - an ardent determination to… — Lionel Shriver Respect Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on… — Lionel Shriver Escape Copy Share Image
“We agreed that whether we became parents would be 'the single most important decision we would ever make together.' Yet the very… — Lionel Shriver Important decision Copy Share Image
“Frankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of… — Lionel Shriver Life Copy Share Image
“Dr. Rhinestein did not test for malice, for spiteful indifference, or for congenital meanness. If they could, I wonder how many fish… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy.... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself,… — Lionel Shriver Afternoon Copy Share Image
Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't. — Lionel Shriver Favour Copy Share Image
“I didn't put in my diaphragm' I mumbled when we were through. You stirred, 'Is it dangerous?' 'It's very dangerous,' I said.… — Lionel Shriver Nine months Copy Share Image
“they could make profitable use of his ample winnings and see the world. Were he not on tour for most of the… — Lionel Shriver Simple pleasures Copy Share Image
