Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
—Lisa Alther
Topics: Mothers
I happen to feel that the degree of a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
—Lisa Alther
Topics: Attitude, Intelligence
Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
—Lisa Alther
Topics: Inspiration
That’s the risk you take if you change: that people you’ve been involved with won’t like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
—Lisa Alther
Topics: Change, Risk-taking
If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
—Lisa Alther
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- Andre Norton American Science Fiction Writer
- Amy Tan Chinese-American Novelist
- Rita Mae Brown American Writer, Feminist
- Maxine Hong Kingston American Novelist, Memoirist
- Patricia Briggs American Writer
- Isabel Allende Chilean Novelist
- Norman Mailer American Novelist, Journalist
- Alice Walker American Novelist, Activist
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