Quotes from Elizabeth Benedict

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

The sun was shining, and there, right there on the side of the road, was a flower stand, a homemade wooden table covered with painted tins of lupine and cream-colored roses. For a few minutes on that sun-drenched road, I believed that God might be working her magic.

elevator door opened and people poured out. Bustling, well dressed, Oriental.

I turned on my e-mail

Shrinks will tell you there are only five problems: sex, money, intimacy, trust, children. No, six: add parents, as in in-laws, Alzheimer's, inheritance. And of course they are all related

Her real life was underway, with all of its scratches and dents. Like the rest of us forty to forty five, she was something of a used book; intact but a bit battered around the edges.

You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.