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Mary Gaitskill Quotes

I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for a few more hours in the evening.

Mary Gaitskill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1954

Topics

Work Morning Dinner Night Start Go

I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.

Jessica Williams

Great Think Comedy You Feeling Way

I've always believed certain things: You treat everybody nicely because, more than anything, it's the right thing to do. And then you also never know when someone will be in position to help you or hurt you. I know I've gotten help from a lot of people who said good things about me because I treated them well.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Good People Me Good Things Treat

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

Jennifer Lee

Cooking Activity Chinese Vigilance

The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'

John McEnroe

Love Good I Love You You Hug Say

When I go out, I just put on a little mascara - Chanel is my favourite - and fragrance. I actually apply fragrance right out of the shower - I spray and walk through it so it's not too overpowering.

Anna Ewers

Walk Fragrance Go Right Out Shower

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

Andy Summers

Guitar Serious Hard Compete Been

I eat everything. I still like to go to Peter Luger once in a while.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Go Eat Everything Still Like Once

That's the problem with bacterial meningitis: it progresses really fast. You think you have the flu, and they say within 15 hours it's severely deadly - for sure within the first 24 hours - but even the first 15 hours.

Amy Purdy

Think Problem You Fast Say Flu

Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'

Mary Daly

Women Creative Losing Think Giving

My dad studies and practices homeopathy and Ayurveda medicine. He's a strong believer in both honey and milk as forms of healing. Honey is the one food that does not die. It does not expire. Growing up, he'd always be mixing up almonds or turmeric or gram flower with milk to cure a cough or a cold.

Rupi Kaur

Flower Food Healing Growing Up Cold

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Miguel de Cervantes

Better Look Giants Things Pray Sir

I looked around and couldn't believe no one has written a show about women and eating. It's the biggest issue women have.

Lisa Lampanelli

Women Eating Believe Show Around