That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people… — Lisa Alther Change Copy Share Image
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone. — Lisa Alther Attachment Copy Share Image
It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published… — Lisa Alther Best sellers Copy Share Image
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and… — Lisa Alther Children Copy Share Image
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. — Lisa Alther Air Copy Share Image
“Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the… — Lisa Alther Innovation Copy Share Image
"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can… — Lisa Alther Attitude Copy Share Image
The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one… — Lisa Alther Atrophy Copy Share Image
The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself. — Lisa Alther Strength Copy Share Image
Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a… — Lisa Alther Active Copy Share Image
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all… — Lisa Alther Fiction Copy Share Image
The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables. — Lisa Alther Adults Copy Share Image
successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink. — Lisa Alther Drink Copy Share Image
The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the… — Lisa Alther Air Copy Share Image
If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind. — Lisa Alther Behinds Copy Share Image
The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart. — Lisa Alther Difficult Copy Share Image
“I always thought it was a question of achieving some permanent state of tranquillity ... but it's not. It's more like learning… — Lisa Alther Peace Copy Share Image
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you. — Lisa Alther Feels Copy Share Image
“no pain was permanent, and no loss was real. That even though people treated each other abominably, even though they left, even… — Lisa Alther Pain Copy Share Image
“If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating… — Lisa Alther Adulthood Copy Share Image
If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating… — Lisa Alther Adulthood Copy Share Image
What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. — Lisa Alther Furniture Copy Share Image
A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk… — Lisa Alther Authenticity Copy Share Image
