"America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps……" — Koren Zailckas
"America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones."
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24 Quotes by Koren Zailckas
Koren Zailckas has 24 quotes on this site.
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For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the…
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I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my…
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I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.
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I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for…
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I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties…
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But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in…
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Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on…
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Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle,…
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I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer…
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I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more…
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There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion"…
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My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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