Elizabeth Berg Quotes

I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.

Elizabeth Berg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1948

Topics

MenBookClubWhereBeenFact

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

Jim Bakker

BookYouDownKnowWriteExplain

I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.

Joe Bonamassa

YouKnowNashvilleJeansDislike

I love the Olympics.

Jennie Finch

LoveI LoveOlympics

People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the time.

Meg Wolitzer

TimePeopleThinkingYouKnowSay

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

Robert Graves

TimeMoneyMeWritingTalkingWrong

I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.

Michael Ignatieff

FailureExperienceWalkPoliticsMe

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Tom Hayden

HistoryToo MuchCivil RightsRights

There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even do anything. They basically just hold them up, and if they don't bite you, they might win.

Robin Williams

PeopleWinAmericaYouUpAnything

Retiring is getting ready to die.

Rodger Ward

DieReadyGettingRetiring

We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

WorkLiveKnowledgeChildrenWorld

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

Michelle Bachelet

NatureLeadershipLosingExercise

I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.

Louise Bourgeois

WatchComputerTVUseFax

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