Lisa Alther famous quotes

03-26-2025

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
-- Lisa Alther

#Change #People #Risk
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
-- Lisa Alther

#Time #Use #Use Of Time
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
-- Lisa Alther

#Mom #Mother #Jobs
Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
-- Lisa Alther

#Inspiration
If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
-- Lisa Alther

#Food #Vegetables #Improvement
The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.
-- Lisa Alther
The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.
-- Lisa Alther

#France
If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.
-- Lisa Alther

#Moving #Leaving #Mourn
The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.
-- Lisa Alther

#Emotional #Energy #Collapse
Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.
-- Lisa Alther

#Depression #Mind #States
A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.
-- Lisa Alther

#Essence #Snakes #Trying
successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.
-- Lisa Alther

#Successful #Rolling #Drink
We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
-- Lisa Alther

#Soul #Vision #Visionaries
The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.
-- Lisa Alther

#Romantic Love #Requirements #Dodge
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.
-- Lisa Alther

#Children #Parenting #Issues
It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.
-- Lisa Alther

#Years #Rejection #Firsts
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.
-- Lisa Alther

#Years #Rejection #Important
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.
-- Lisa Alther

#Attachment #People #Dying
What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.
-- Lisa Alther

#Rooms #Furniture #Surprise
The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.
-- Lisa Alther

#Men #Air #Life Is

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