Mona Simpson Quotes

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

Mona Simpson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1957

Topics

LovePeopleHurtAssumptionsSayOh

I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

Jimmy Smits

CarNew YorkYouNewNowCalifornia

The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.

Jim Harrison

MeWorldRestFatDietAmerica

I am not a professional politician.

John Delaney

I AmProfessionalPoliticianAm

The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges.

Meir Soloveichik

ManPracticeSlaveryBibleStory

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

John McWhorter

PeopleWritingAwayCodeArticles

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

John Updike

FaceMaskCelebrityEats

I never fail to find it weird when people recognise me.

Mollie King

PeopleMeWeirdFindNeverFail

As a woman in Saudi Arabia, you have one of two options. You either lose your mind - which at first happened to me because I fell into a deep depression - or you become a feminist.

Mona Eltahawy

DepressionWomanMindMeDeepLose

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

Monica Ali

TryingYouOutsideNeedAlwaysOut

My parents were truly severe.

Miuccia Prada

ParentsSevereWereTruly

When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.

Louis Jourdan

AdmitImportantThirtyDifficulties

History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.

Jay Parini

HistoryAnythingExistLikeMade

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