146 Quotes by Gina Barreca

The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it’s right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she’s dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, ‘Which one, Hades?’

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who like what they like more than they don’t like what they don’t like and, in contrast, those who don’t like what they don’t like more than they like what they like.

If anger were mileage, I’d be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

If you know you can do it – if you can already chart every day in your future – then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

The people I work with are like family. I don’t mean this in a nice way.

Never use the passive voice. Do not say, ‘It will get done.’ Say, ‘I’ll do it,’ and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline.

Rambling speeches and bad writing litter our lives. If talk is cheap, it’s because the supply usually exceeds the demand.

Want to guess what comes up when I Google “Woman discovers”? It’s not “new galaxy.” It’s “a body in her trunk” or “the unthinkable in her attic.” According to my computer search, other big discoveries by women include “her co-worker is her birth mom,” “a Renaissance painting in her kitchen,” and “her new home was once a meth lab.” Hey, at least that one contains the word “lab.