146 Quotes by Gina Barreca

My therapist has helped me learn to understand that if you don’t unpack your own emotional baggage it’s no longer baggage – it’s deadweight.

More than anything else, I wanted not to be alone – yet all my actions guaranteed I’d be lonely. Like wearing a vest of explosives when you’re coming in for a hug, insatiable need is a form of sabotage.

I’ve been married for a long time and there are days when I still wonder, ‘Excuse me, but who is this man?

Writers read. Writers read promiscuously, aggressively and relentlessly.

From age sixteen to age twenty, a woman’s body is a temple. From twenty-one to forty-five, it’s an amusement park. From forty-five on, it’s a terrarium.

Fate gives us relatives for one reason: so that we have to learn how to deal with people we’d otherwise never know.

Until we’re pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything’s coming up roses – for me and for you.

It’s only when you’re at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.

Ever notice there are no clocks in stores? It’s like casinos; they don’t want you to know how much time you’ve spent dropping your quarters.