Lucy Ellmann Quotes

#1. I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last.

Lucy Ellmann

#2. The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.

Lucy Ellmann

#3. Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

Lucy Ellmann

#4. The whole world organizes itself around the fact that people manage to get their awkward bodies in position to fuck, an achievement honored by toasters, tandems, and tax cuts.

Lucy Ellmann

#5. Unable to make babies, they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

Lucy Ellmann

#6. What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit.

Lucy Ellmann