263 Quotes by Meg Wolitzer

Good writing is good writing, and I’m so happy when I read it.

People did what they could, as powerfully as they could, until they couldn’t do it anymore. There wasn’t much time.

I think there are two kinds of feminists. The famous ones, and everyone else. Everyone else, all the people who just quietly go and do what they’re supposed to do, and don’t get a lot of credit for it, and don’t have someone out there every day telling them they’re doing an awesome job.

It’s funny how you can go for a long time in life not needing someone, and then you meet them and you suddenly need them all the time.

You know, I sometimes think that the most effective people in the world are introverts who taught themselves how to be extroverts.

Wasn’t the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn’t have to wear a tie?

Everyone knows how women soldier on, how women dream up blueprints, recipes, ideas for a better world, and then sometimes lose them on the way to the crib in the middle of the night, on the way to Stop and Shop, or the bath. They lose them on the way to greasing the path on which their husband and children will ride serenely through life.

Joe once told me he felt a little sorry for women, who only got husbands. Husbands tried to help by giving answers, being logical, stubbornly applying force as though it were a glue gun. Or else they didn’t try to help at all, for they were somewhere else entirely, out walking in the world by themselves. But wives, oh wives, when they weren’t being bitter or melancholy or counting the beads on their abacus of disappointment, they could take care of you with delicate and effortless ease.

Maybe the idea of the supposed tension between working and nonworking mothers had been put out in the world just to cause divisiveness.