Home / Authors / Lucy Knisley

Lucy Knisley Quotes

Author

Browse famous quotes by Lucy Knisley.

Filter quotes by topic

All Body Food History Age Ageing Ancestors Anxiety Caretaking Cookies Distance

Famous Lucy Knisley Quotes

“For a large part of human history, people didn't really know how a woman's body worked. This is mainly because for much of human history, a woman's body was either too sacred or too sexual to study.”

Body History Study Human Sacred Woman Sexual

Book:Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

Source: Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

“Anyone who can fail to rejoice in the enticing squish/crunch of a fast-food French fry, or the delight of a warmed piece of grocery-store donut, is living half a life”

Book:Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

Source: Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

“But my cookies contain the anxious deliciousness earned through an afternoon spent in turmoil, soothed by separating my troubles into warm crispy pieces.”

Food Anxiety Cookies

Book:Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

Source: Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

“When we write about our lives, it's a form of time travel. We inhabit the body we were back then, and yet we do so from our safe distance in the future.”

Body Future Safe Distance Time Travel Write Lives Inhabit

Book:Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

Source: Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

“Constant consciousness of old age's frailties really makes me appreciate youth. It's so interesting that we evolved to respond with automatic care to the young... while old age repels, makes us afraid of our own mortality.”

Age Humanity Youth Mortality Ageing Youthfulness Caretaking

Book:Displacement: A Travelogue

Source: Displacement: A Travelogue

“All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.”

History Travel Europe Murder Genocide Holocaust Ancestors Genealogy Travelogue

Book:An Age of License: A Travelogue

Source: An Age of License: A Travelogue

About the Author

Known for: Author
Quotes: 6

Related Topics

Body Food History Age Ageing Ancestors Anxiety Caretaking Cookies Distance

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful ChaosRelated source material

Relish: My Life in the KitchenRelated source material

An Age of License: A TravelogueRelated source material

Displacement: A TravelogueRelated source material

Similar Authors