263 Quotes by Meg Wolitzer

The world of law was filled with the fallen, but theater wasn’t. No one ever “fell back” onto theater. You had to really, really want it.

I’ve always had a fear of being small and ordinary.

My job does not define me.

No, not just the visual. There’s the emotional part too. There’s that line Faulkner said, about how you don’t love because. You love despite.

A child just wants to love her parents and to be loved, and it seems like it should be simple to do that, but sometimes it’s not.

At the podium Faith said, “Whenever I give a talk at colleges I meet young women who say, ‘I’m not a feminist, but... ’ By which they mean, ‘I don’t call myself a feminist, but I want equal pay, and I want to have equal relationships with men, and of course I want to have an equal right to sexual pleasure. I want to have a fair and good life. I don’t want to be held back because I’m a woman.

All people, male or female, were helpless in the specifics of their own bodies.

She used to be really dynamic and exciting and filled with promise, but she’s become this ordinary sort of boring person... I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don’t want that to happen to me.

Writers need light. They always tell you this, as though they’re parched, as though they’re plants, as though the page they’re working on would look completely different with a southern exposure.