16 Quotes by Jean Stafford

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

(My bounded brain was as) unalterable as a ball.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

I know this, and the knowledge eats me like an inward animal: there is nothing worse for a woman than to be deprived of her womanliness.

I am growing meaner by the hour.