Judith Thurman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet
-- Judith Thurman

#Mad #Visionaries #Persons
And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brownâ€™s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.
-- Judith Thurman

#Careers #Lessons #May
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
-- Judith Thurman

#Travel #Dreamer #Homesick
Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.
-- Judith Thurman

#Wine #Sobriety #Alcohol
This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.
-- Judith Thurman

#Summer #Lying #Rivers
Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.
-- Judith Thurman

#Fashion #Sisterhood #Long
Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.
-- Judith Thurman

#Luxury #Insecurity
We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.
-- Judith Thurman

#Way #Chance #One Life To Live
If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.
-- Judith Thurman

#World #Sentences #Translations
Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.
-- Judith Thurman

#Art #Family Life #Monument
The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.
-- Judith Thurman

#Editing #Editors #Borders
As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors.
-- Judith Thurman

#Writing #Thinking #Way
Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."
-- Judith Thurman

#People #Simplicity #Political

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