313 Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

The person with the bleeding finger doesn't hurt less for the person next to him with the bleeding arm.

Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead?

For all that we might be, if only we'd let ourselves.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I am not the only one. But here, I am the only one.

My mother lost too much and repaired herself in the only way she was able to repair herself. That in fact she is repairing herself, hour by hour.

You know before you know, of course. You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone. You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone.

There is incredible value in being of service to others.

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.