13 Quotes by Lucy Knisley

All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.

When we write about our lives, it's a form of time travel. We inhabit the body we were back then, and yet we do so from our safe distance in the future.

For a large part of human history, people didn't really know how a woman's body worked. This is mainly because for much of human history, a woman's body was either too sacred or too sexual to study.

There's plenty of drama and comedy and bodily fluids! And what's a good origin story without all three?

Constant consciousness of old age's frailties really makes me appreciate youth. It's so interesting that we evolved to respond with automatic care to the young... while old age repels, makes us afraid of our own mortality.

L'Age Licence. As in: License to experience, mess up, license to fail, license to do... whatever, before you're settled.

Anyone who can fail to rejoice in the enticing squish/crunch of a fast-food French fry, or the delight of a warmed piece of grocery-store donut, is living half a life

Some trips are more than distance traveled in miles.

When we write about our lives, it’s a form of time travel. We inhabit the body we were back then, and yet we do so from our safe distance in the future.