38 Quotes by Hortense Calisher

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Speech isn't for agony.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.