Herself: An Autobiographical Work
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“'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.”
“First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.”
Source: Herself
“When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.”
Source: Herself: An Autobiographical Work
“How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.”
Source: Mysteries of Motion: A Novel
“I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.”
“In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.”
Source: On Keeping Women: A Novel
Source: In the Absence of Angels: Stories
“I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher
“perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.”
Source: Mysteries of motion
“Agony without genius was gaucherie.”
Source: Mysteries of Motion: A Novel
Source: Standard Dreaming: A Novella
“if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.”
Source: Mysteries of Motion: A Novel
“Decades go faster toward the end of a century.”
Source: Mysteries of motion
Source: Mysteries of motion
“Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.”
“The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.”
Source: Standard Dreaming: A Novella
“It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.”
Source: Standard Dreaming: A Novella
“The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.”
Source: Standard Dreaming: A Novella
Source: Mysteries of motion
Source: Herself: An Autobiographical Work
Source: Herself: An Autobiographical Work
“This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.”
Source: Herself: An Autobiographical Work
“I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.”
“The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.”
Source: Extreme Magic: Eight Stories and a Novella
Source: Queenie: a novel
“What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.”