"The child who was happy with herself meant……" — Meg Wolitzer
"The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot."
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30 Quotes by Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer has 30 quotes on this site.
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The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until…
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I have never been much of a researcher
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Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.
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Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse…
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The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.
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The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like…
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People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to…
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You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.
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While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed…
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Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
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You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at…
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To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made…
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James A. Baldwin
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a…
— Tyra Banks
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