263 Quotes by Meg Wolitzer

Language only felt infinite; instead, everyone swam through surprisingly narrow channels when they spoke or wrote.

Sisterhood,” she said, “is about being together with other women in a cause that allows all women to make the individual choices they want. Because as long as women are separate from one another, organized around competition – like in a children’s game where only one person gets to be the princess – then it will be the rare woman who is not in the end narrowed and limited by our society’s idea of what a woman should be.

Maybe the secret truth about death is that dead people are whisked away from their current lives and forced to live somewhere else far away – a process similar to reincarnation but taking place not in the future but now. A sort of mortality-based witness protection program. And if you found them they would look the same as they always had. If only you knew where to find them. If only you knew where to look.

When you lived a certain kind of life, pushed along by good colleges and internships and jobs and a shared, tranquil neighborhood and a world of privilege in which your child overlapped, you were inevitably part of a long chain of connections. All of them could help one another; the possibilities were there if they wanted them, though many of them didn’t seem to want them anymore, or maybe they had somehow forgotten they had once wanted them.

I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.

I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.

I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.

I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.

I love guacamole and think about it a lot when I'm supposed to be thinking about language.