Daughter Quote by Cathleen Schine

All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've…

— Cathleen Schine

Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire…

— Cathleen Schine

One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and…

— Cathleen Schine

I grew up reading books about heroic collies.

— Cathleen Schine

“Lines of gulls standing on glassy blue patches of wet sand.”

— Cathleen Schine

In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.

— Cathleen Schine

Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were…

— Cathleen Schine

“They ate and picked sand from their chicken in the pink light.”

— Cathleen Schine

I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a…

— Cathleen Schine

“It was not that the woman boasted. Quite the opposite. She was modest to a fault, the fault being she insinuated her modesty, deftly,…

— Cathleen Schine

“...bottle green Jaguar.”

— Cathleen Schine

Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in…

— Cathleen Schine