13 Quotes by Lucy Knisley

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.

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.

I’m sorry... that it couldn’t last. But part of me is glad that it can exist, whole and lovely and complicated, in my mind.

Whenever I travel through crowded places, I’m struck by how human beings en masse are so incredibly hideous, while individual humans can be so heartbreakingly beautiful. Congregated: ugly, ubiquitous, and repellent. Individually: nuanced, intricate, beautiful, and unknowable. Fragile, separate, singular... fascinating. This just kills me.