Best Quotes by Lisa Alther (Top 8)
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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
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I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
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Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
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Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
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I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.
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What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.
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Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
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If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
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