Choice Quote by Cherise Wolas Download Open image ““Joan thinks then that writers have infinite choices and mothers nearly no choice at all.”” — Cherise Wolas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Choice Decision making Parenting Writing
“Sometimes I wondered if I had made Joan up. Other times I wondered if she would continue to pop in at every crisis of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I think that the people I know now believe I went home to take care of my mother because I loved her. And sometimes… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“she had made her choices in life, and her choices had made her in return.” — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Joan Frances says her mother is perfect someone she models herself after. She is tortured because she is disobeying her mother by seeing me.… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“There were a dozen reasons why she might refuse him. But they were all someone else’s reasons. Her mother’s, her peers’, society’s. She’d already… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“It was her choice. In a world where so many choices weren't hers, it was a wonderful thing.” — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
“People liked to imagine they were free to choose their own lives, but she had learned that choice was sometimes illusory.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Life was not a choice. Life was a gift and she would treasure it, no matter what challenges were being thrown her way.” — Andrea Barbosa Copy Share Image
“She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Critical to my understanding of myself was that my parents may have been storytellers, but I was the writer in my family, the only… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“Joan Ashby is one of our most astonishing writers, a master of words whose profound characters slip free of the page...” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“In the stories Joan wrote when she was Daniel’s age, she had murdered her characters, while Daniel had his one character facing down dangers… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“In the park, the bright colors of the children's clothing, the timbre of their young voices, lowered and darkened.” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“The middle seat holds an old woman, teeny, not much bigger than a doll. She is creased and wrinkled and rheumy-eyed. Her eyes, though,… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“All the ways in which women become mothers of some sort. Is motherhood inescapably entwined in female life, a story every woman ends up… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“We were young, and some of us were beautiful, and others of us were brilliant, and a few of us were both. Citizenship demanded… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“Thank you to Steve Iwanski and Turnrow Books for this fantastic review of THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY!! Cherise Wolas' debut novel is a… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“Her failure to demand her needs, losing all of her years, sacrificing herself on the altar of motherhood to a son who saved himself… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“She wonders when and how she decided it was sinful to heed her own destiny” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Exactly. So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material. — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Words can only have an effect on you if you choose to listen to them. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image