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
Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
—Lisa Alther
Topics: Inspiration
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: Intelligence, Attitude
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
—Lisa Alther
Topics: Mothers
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