Top 17 Spacks Quotes
#2. When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.
Jerome A. Miller
#3. Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
#4. Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
#5. The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
#6. I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.
Daniel Bruhl
#7. The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
#8. No reader can fail to agree that the number of books she needs to read far exceeds her capacities, but when the passion for rereading kicks in, the faint guilt that therefore attends the indulgence only serves to intensify its sweetness.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
#9. The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
#11. Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
#12. I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I'm trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.
Sarah Kay
#13. When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim.
Sharon Osbourne
#14. You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Charlie Munger
#15. Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.
John Green
#17. Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
