top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation-a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
Imagination
"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."
People
"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
Family
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
Marriage
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
Patriotism
"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
Fiction
"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
Life
"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."
Family
"As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari."
Dream
bottom of page