Time Quote by Isabel Allende

“I never understood until recently that it's possible to miss what you never had.”

— Zara Phillips

“She had a nostalgia for a life she had never lived.”

— Nancy Lemann

“But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had her husband…

— Shirley Hazzard

“It's hard to miss something you never had.”

— Eileen Cook

“Driven by my own childhood, I had to be sure you wanted for nothing. You were to feel so loved, safe, and secure that…

— D.G. Torrens

“Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.”

— Anna Quindlen

“You can't miss what you never had. And definitely not what you don't understand.”

— Lori G. Armstrong

“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.”

— Francine Prose

“How could you miss something you never had?”

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The women I loved most in the world horrified me. I did not want to grow up to be them.”

— Dorothy Allison

“She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life.”

— Philippa Gregory