Barbara Neely Quotes

#1. The longer I live, the more boring youth becomes. So redundant. Each generation rediscovers the wheel of rebellion, the wheel of love, and so forth and so on. We hardly know which end is up until we're in our thirties.

Barbara Neely

#2. [On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

Barbara Neely

#3. "Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

Barbara Neely

#4. No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.

Barbara Neely

#5. For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.

Barbara Neely

#6. Maybe his stuff was so good it made her think she could fly!

Barbara Neely

#7. I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

Barbara Neely

#8. Love and sex, honey. Either one can make you do the damndest things. The two combined will make you a sure 'nough fool.

Barbara Neely