Adrienne Gusoff Quotes

#1. Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.

Adrienne Gusoff

#2. Luce even analyzed my prose style to see if I wrote in a linear, masculine way, or in a circular, feminine one.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.

Sheila E.

#4. I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

Heidi Julavits

#5. I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back and float along the river instead of trying to paddle and guide ourselves to a more creative place.

Bonnie Baker

#6. Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.

Gayle Rubin

#7. If the shoe fits, it's too expensive.

Adrienne Gusoff

#8. How does one lift one's own life out of the mundane and into something epic? Surely one should be brave enough to love?

Jojo Moyes

#9. How strange that we cannot love time. It spoils our loveliest moments. Nothing quite comes up to expectations because of it. We alone: animals, so far as we can see, are unaware of time, untroubled. Time is their natural environment. Why do we sense that it is not ours?

Sheldon Vanauken

#10. Don't smile. The queen is going to come at you, and she's going to conjure up a ... machine gun, and your going to counter with a plastic straw.

Brodi Ashton

#11. All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

Bridget Moynahan

#12. I never had time to do anything for myself. I've always had to subordinate my energy and time to the demands of my husband and children at any given moment. And now old age has crept up on me and I have used up all my mental and physical strength on my family ...

Sophia Tolstaya

#13. Of course, as a model for my magician Strange is far from perfect
he lacks the true heroic nature; for that I shall be obliged to put in something of myself.

Susanna Clarke

#14. The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.

Isabel Allende

#15. Suddenly we have a baby who poops and cries, and we are trying to calm, clean up, and pin things together all at once. Then as fast as we learn to cope
so soon
it is hard to recall why diapers ever seemed so important. The frontiers change, and now perhaps we have a teenager we can't reach.

Polly Berrien Berends