- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.
- Foster Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think of those in the 'far right' or those who are pro-life to the extreme and at all costs protect the unborn, the thing that enrages me is you want to ask every one of them, 'How many foster children are in your home now?'
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
- Dozens
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.
- Emotional Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter loves romances. She's a Ph.D student at George Washington University, and when my first book without a clinch cover came out, she said to me: 'Finally, a book I can read on the Metro.'
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible for me to dissociate the risk of playing football from the risk of C.T.E.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a son. He's out of school now. He never played football. And it had nothing to do with me. I was actually crushed that he didn't play football. I thought, 'Oh my God, this is awful.' My brothers all played football. My dad played football.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020