10 Quotes by Judith Perelman Rossner

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

That’s the New York thing, isn’t it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

The past isn’t useful until its place in the present is found.

A lie was something that hadn’t happened but might just as well have.

In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat – walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

It’s astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It’s very sad.

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change – as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don’t stagnate.