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Mary Gaitskill Quotes

At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn't really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling.

Mary Gaitskill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Seeing Feeling Intellectual Shy Who

I think only the movies you do remember are the films you had an emotional connection to.

Jeff Nichols

Think Remember You Connection Movies

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

Ruud Gullit

Football I Am Happy Think I Am Happy

'You're beautiful' was the compliment I craved so much. I didn't care if people called me smart or innovative - it was the number-one compliment I gave out to other women hoping it was given back to me. I heard people saying it to my best friends. It was the one I wanted to hear more than anything else.

Rupi Kaur

Women Beautiful Best Smart People

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

Russell Banks

Women Men White Run First Educated

I think that, as women, we're often asked to apologize for our own power, or we're asked to undercut ourselves, and it's deemed unattractive to have faith in our abilities.

Miriam Shor

Women Faith Power Think Apologize

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

Mitch Albom

Wait Book You Back Chapter Run

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

Jon Jones

College Growing Up Growing Poor Up

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

David Sedaris

Morning Winning February Someone You

I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.

Colm Toibin

Work Sleep Child Ending End Plan

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Brian Eno

Music Great Art Beginning Ambition

I was a pretty damn good waiter.

Antoni Porowski

Good Damn Pretty Waiter

Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles and not public pressures of other sort. That's the meaning of neutrality.

Anthony Kennedy

Judge Meaning You Important More