168 Quotes by Ruth Reichl

I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness. Most people don’t recognize their own good fortune until it has departed. And then it is too late.” “What about Remy? What.

Still, if I’m being honest, I have to admit that working women everywhere accepted casual misogyny. We were so accustomed to taking what men dished out that we thought it was up to us to find ways to deflect the advances of bosses and co-workers without hurting their feelings. As.

We’re in a transient state – why hate our present selves? Let’s save the energy for when we are eighty, when we are perhaps above, or beyond, changing. Then we can hate, if hate we must.

I just can’t imagine somebody else in the White House. I’m sure President Truman is a good man, but even the words feel peculiar in my mouth. A world without President Roosevelt seems like a strange and scary place.

The best antidote for sadness, I have always believed, is tackling something that you don’t know how to do.

But I have always been persuaded that someday, when I grow up, I am destined for great things. And then I wonder when, exactly, I expect that will be.

I’d learned an important lesson: When something frightens me, it is definitely worth doing.

I feel as if there’s a huge gulf separating me from all the lucky people in the world; they have so much to look forward to.

I discovered that endings have their own odd thrill. In the mania of the moment, it’s possible to forget what you are losing.