Quote by Elizabeth Berg

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

— Elizabeth Berg

“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.”

— Elizabeth Berg

If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.

— Elizabeth Berg

“If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.”

— Elizabeth Berg

“You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it’s tissue paper. And I think the times it’s tissue paper are when you need to keep…

— Elizabeth Berg

“It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.”

— Elizabeth Berg

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

— Elizabeth Berg

“I should have said “powder room.” That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of fresh flowers…

— Elizabeth Berg

Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you…

— Elizabeth Berg

“I don’t think Martha’s so bad. I think I want her for a friend instead of you. When I look at her magazine, I…

— Elizabeth Berg

*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone…

— Elizabeth Berg

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate…

— Elizabeth Berg