76 Quotes by Gail Godwin

As long as you can go on creating new roles for yourself, you are not vanquished.

The walk north was exactly the right distance to make me walk out of myself... If you walked out of yourself going north, what did you do on the return walk? Enjoyed my emptiness. Or sometimes just congratulated myself for escaping.

The human mind, as we know from personal experience, is a chronic time traveler, but we are repeatedly amazed by its ability to hitch up the body, the body that resides the only place it can – in present time – and pull it along like a wagon, with its entire load of sensory equipment, backward or forward into other time zones.

After all the human noise and conflicts have stopped, the absent person has more room in your heart to spread out and be herself. My mother’s been gone ten years and I know her much better now than when we saw each other every day.