Birth Quote by Gabrielle Hamilton

“There are two things you should never do with your father: learn how to drive and learn how to kill a chicken.”

— Gabrielle Hamilton

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

“[I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.”

— Gabrielle Hamilton

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

“It became such a recurring experience during this period when I was twenty -- to be starving and afraid of running out of money…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

“For the first time in probably the entire decade that had passed since I had seen or spoken to my own mother, I thought…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

“I had always wanted to contribute in some way. Leave a little more than I took.”

— Gabrielle Hamilton

“Each housing development has a "country" name - Squirrel Valley, Pine Ridge, Eagle crossing, Deer Path, which has an unkind way of invoking and…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

“But it was from him - with his cool, long sideburns and aviator sunglasses, and box of watercolor paints (and artist's paycheck) - from…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

— Gabrielle Hamilton

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own…

— Gabrielle Hamilton