Cathleen Schine Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.”

“I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.”

“In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.”

“'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.”

“I grew up reading books about heroic collies.”

“I spend a lot, a lot, a lot of time on the Web.”

“I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'”

“If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.”

“'Use Me' is a wonderfully satisfying book.”

“Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.”