Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Elizabeth Gilbert quotes and sayings page 3 (55 year old novelist). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 72 we have for her.
“Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.”
“I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.”
“When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.”
“Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.”
“Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.”
“Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.”
“I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'”
“And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.”
“I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.”
“I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.”
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