White Houses
Amy Bloom
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I have been lonely in my life but never when drinking strong coffee, wearing my fleecy slippers, and standing in my own kitchen.”
“Every woman’s body is an intimate landscape. The hills, the valleys, the narrow ledges, the riverbanks, the sudden eruptions of soft or crinkling hair. Here are the plains, the fine dry slopes. Here are the woods, here is the smooth path to the only door I wish to walk through. Eleanor’s body is the landscape of my true home.”
“There are people you always love, no matter what they have done to you, no matter what you have done to them.”
“The function of democratic living is not to lower standards but to raise those that have been too low.”
“Amelia said, “I think women—some women—regard matrimony as a highly honorable retreat from the possibility of failure in the larger world.”
“she talked until she was hoarse about the basic rights of every citizen: equal education, equal pay, equal representation, and equal participation. Everyone quoted her and lots of people hated her,”
“love was like some shabby old footstool. Everyone used it without wanting it and no one ever gave it a moment’s thought.”
“Whitman said, ‘I am as bad as the worst but, thank God, I am as good as the best.’ You ought to spend more time with people who know how bad they are.”
“We were determined to be the people we wanted to be and not the blind, desperate people we were.”
“We love the attentiveness of powerful people, because it’s such a pleasant, gratifying surprise, but Eleanor was not a grand light shining briefly on the lucky little people. She reached for the soul of everyone who spoke to her, every day. She bowed her head toward yours, as if there was nothing but the time and necessary space for two people to briefly love each other.”
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