Gabrielle Hamilton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Badass is a juvenile aspiration.
-- Gabrielle Hamilton

#Badass #Aspiration #Juvenile
Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.
-- Gabrielle Hamilton

#Cuz #Be Careful #Careful
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?
-- Gabrielle Hamilton

#Mother #Effort #Separation
I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.
-- Gabrielle Hamilton

#People #Car #Mind
My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.
-- Gabrielle Hamilton

#Father #Stupid #Attention
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up â€¦ then down â€¦ then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. Itâ€™s a tired reading style. Iâ€™m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselvesâ€”as theyâ€™ve been arrangedâ€”could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.
-- Gabrielle Hamilton

#Song #Reading #Tired
It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.
-- Gabrielle Hamilton

#Writing #Son #Garden
Iâ€™m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.
-- Gabrielle Hamilton

#Real #Pearls #About Yourself
I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.
-- Gabrielle Hamilton

#Real #Pearls #About Yourself
You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.
-- Gabrielle Hamilton

#Knees #Faces #Force

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