25 Quotes by Diane Johnson

This is the first time it's been together. It's a big deal to us.

I told him, the kids and I are leaving, ... And I wanted him to come, and he said he was going to stay.

A chaplain’s biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

Women have the feeling that since they didn’t make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn’t make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

It didn’t seem fair that you could not prevent being the object of other people’s emotions, you were not safe from their hate – or from their love, for that matter. You were never safe from being invaded by their feelings when you wanted only to be rid of them, free, off, away.