Even after he was gone…– Kate Christensen
Even after he was gone, I still loved my father. I looked Norwegian, like him, with a long face, strong jaw, thin mouth, and flashing
Even after he was gone, I still loved my father. I looked Norwegian, like him, with a long face, strong jaw, thin mouth, and flashing
My father’s grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking
In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working
As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much
Even more than dying itself, I’m scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as
Iggy Pop has a voice that’s somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don’t know how he does what he
I’ve cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally
I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a
I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had
I started reading G. K. Chesterton’s ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’ on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
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