Kathleen NorrisThinkers

Ambition is like this: if it doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it.

Gossip is theology translated into experience.

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

Middle age is not a question of years. It is that moment in life when one realizes that one has exchanged, by a series of subtle shifts and substitutes, the vague and vaporous dreams of youth for the definite and tangible realization.