Quotes from Meg Wolitzer

Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender says, 'Do you want a drink, sir?' And Descartes says, 'I think not.' And then he disappears.

When you have a child, it's like right away there's this grandiose fantasy about who he'll become. And then time goes on and a funnel appears. And the child get pushed through that funnel, and shaped by it, and narrowed a little bit.

But what happened to the talented women who lacked sharp cheekbones or an ease in the universe? The ones who had no attachments to powerful men?

She'd learned to be composed in public, even as she was once again most likely falling apart.

Married life proved not very different from premarried life, except now there was the desire for solidity instead of expansion.

the Olympian vantage point that time provides:

Twitter. You know what it is? Termites with microphones.

No one told you that in moments of crisis, family was allowed to trump friendship.

They crossed the Smith campus in clusters, these girls, as though they might simply tip over if forced to stand alone.

Apparently you didn't require air when you were a teenager. You made your own air.

constantly worrying about money is boring. Use your brain to think about your clients and their problems. Use it to be creative.

There are some places a person can go where no one else can follow them. And sometimes you just have to trust that they know what they're doing.

Maybe it'll be legal to marry places one day. And if so, then I will marry this one.

Will you be okay? I do not mean in a cosmic sense.

Someone has to love me," he said. "As far as I can tell, the job is currently unoccupied.

Then it wouldn't be long before they all found themselves shocked and sad to be fully grown into their thicker, finalized adult selves, with almost no chance for reinvention.

Cuvintele conteaz?. Asta a spus doamna Quenell de la bun început. Cuvintele conteaz?. Întreg semestrul am c?utat cuvintele cu care s? spunem ceea ce trebuia s? spunem. Ne c?ut?m propria noastr? voce.

It did something else that art is supposed to do. Absorb you.

A high school play was a time of high emotion and meaning; if you were in a play, you felt as if the play mattered. The success or failure of any production seemed like a real reflection on you personally.

Ce se întâmpl? în Belzhar, orice ar fi, nu las? nicio urm? în lumea real?. Nicio umbr?, niciun fel de reziduu.

I've always sort of felt that you prepare yourself over the course of your whole life for the big moments, you know? But when they happen, you sometimes feel totally unready for them, or even that they're not what you thought. And that's what makes them strange. The reality is really different from the fantasy." "That's

and he was afraid she was going to get that middle-aged coven-member look cultivated by some older women with long hair.

But, she knew, you didn't have to marry your soulmate, and you didn't even have to marry an Interesting. You didn't always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting. Anyway, she knew, the definition could change; it had changed, for her.

She was sexy in a malnourished way; you felt that if you took her to bed, first you would have to give her a hot meal.