16 Quotes by Lucy Ellmann

One of my cats reminds me of my mother. I pat my mother in her. Reincarnation of evaporated mother.

I was sorting through my mother’s things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don’t know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last.

Unable to make babies, they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people’s blood.

And they dare to rule the world! They have made it so ugly. Square houses! Their obsession with straight lines and right angles has ruined the earth! They consider all curves, all subtleties, all softness, all indefinites, female, and they shun them. They have poisoned and denatured everything they touch, and expect us to be grateful.

She stood eating soup in her overgrown garden, looking up at stars she could not name.

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We’ve carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won’t be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit.