27 Quotes by Joyce Johnson

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.

I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him--they were part of his "road," the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Parents may think we expect something from them, ... but there aren't any expectations on our part; we just want to serve.

We were prepared to buy her clothes and make sure she had all her supplies for school, but her guardians said they didn't need anything, ... She seems to be quite happy.

It's good for seniors to eat fresh fruit and vegetables, ... We have a big promotion in Mason County Senior Citizen Center for seniors to eat five to seven serving of fruits and vegetables each day. That's what we try to do here each day.

In the age that I am, in my entire adult life that I have been lobbying for reproductive freedom--why does it seem like we're going so far backwards?

In a good literary memoir, you're basically rendering the essence of the experience. Whether someone is called Jane or Susan, who cares?