Elizabeth-gilbert Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“As I’d worked at my job and traveled and read and lived my life, I’d also decided that a woman is meant to be…

— Anu Partanen

“No one had asked her to marry him, nor was there someone she wished to wed. Not that she did not enjoy the company…

— Janet Wallach

“Married life proved not very different from premarried life, except now there was the desire for solidity instead of expansion.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“...that the basic transaction of life itself was a sad, endless amalgam of public endurance and private indulgence.”

— Stefan Merrill Block

“Without differentiating from parents or caretakers we may never succeed in living our own lives.”

— Lisa Firestone

“He’d valued his dignity more than his own life.”

— Hyeonseo Lee

“I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position.…

— Robin Hobb

“Don't you agree that there must be something radically wrong with a civilisation, society, theory of life - call it what you like in…

— Catherine Carswell

“To be a woman is fated vehemently morbid.”

— Avah Marie

“No one had ever advocated her independence before. The entire success of her marriage, her whole career as a woman, depended largely upon her…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.”

— Willa Cather

“It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you…

— Elizabeth Palmer