22 Quotes by Joy Browne

Opposites attract – and then aggravate.

If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.

Just trying to do something – just being there, showing up – is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

You don’t need a reason to divorce someone you can’t stand.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination.

It’s not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

It is a lot harder to put something back together than to keep it running.

We’ve turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it’s a dreadful mistake that doesn’t benefit anybody.