Jean Stafford Quotes

#1. I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.

Becky G

#2. It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.

Jean Stafford

#3. From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

Jean Stafford

#4. I fell in love with Caligula and now I'm married to Calvin.

Jean Stafford

#5. Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

Madame De Stael

#6. In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#7. The only thing we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.

Hajime Isayama

#8. Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

Jean Stafford

#9. Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

Jack Welch

#10. A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

Jean Stafford

#11. I read Wolfe's new book _ The Story of a Novel_ and as usual he stole the whole damn thing from me. I am going to write and say will you please stop writing books you bastard.

Jean Stafford

#12. How beautiful are these bangles! But if you put them on a man, he will not like it because he has assessed his own worth. One cannot be the 'thermometer (gauge)' as well as the 'fever', both cannot be one.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.

Jean Stafford

#14. The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.

Walter Brueggemann

#15. He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

Jean Stafford

#16. Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

A.E. Samaan

#17. Looking at me like that will get you fucked, Monroe.

B.B. Reid

#18. He whirled round and round in his rapid love; it pricked him on the breastbone like a needle. He wanted to be shut up in a small space to think about it. He wanted to grab it and eat it like an apple so that nobody else could have it.

Jean Stafford

#19. I am growing meaner by the hour.

Jean Stafford

#20. For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

Jean Stafford

#21. Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

#22. I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life.

Toni Morrison

#23. For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

Jean Stafford

#24. You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.

Katherine Ellison

#25. I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.

Jacques D'Amboise

#26. I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

Barry Hannah

#27. You need tell me nothing; I already know your heart. Through your simplest choices you've given yourself away.

Richelle E. Goodrich