J. Courtney Sullivan quotes

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. (J. Courtney Sullivan)

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

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I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

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She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

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We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while Im walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

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Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

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She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more. (J. Courtney Sullivan)

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

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I love the smell of a mans skin.

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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

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Timing was everything when it came to being a woman-the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

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There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.

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When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she'd give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.

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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

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