Setting out some honey shortbread cookies to go with the lemonade, she flashed on memories of her grandmother, offering refreshments to anyone who was lucky enough to come through the kitchen door. As a working farm, Bella Vista was always busy with workers, some seasonal and others permanent. 'In my kitchen, everyone is family,' Bubbie used to say, beaming as the orchard workers, mechanics or gardeners gladly wolfed down her baked goods.
Susan Wiggs
Related I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and t... TOBY KEITH As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always f... AZZEDINE ALAIA She never wanted anyone in her kitchen, so the only way you could get to lick the beater or the spat... TIM KELLOGG A light was on in the kitchen. His mother sat at the kitchen table, as still as a statue. Her hands ... SUZANNE COLLINS Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--... ALICE HOFFMAN To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and wat... CAMILA ALVES Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea... J. RUTH GENDLER Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kit... DAVID SMALL Yes. He saw her in his mind, exactly as she was. She bore him company with her pride, resentment, ha... CHARLES DICKENS She's been working super hard. She had a personal coach working with her the past two months and as ... CARRIE BODO What I would like my legacy to be is that of a person who took good care of her family and sang some... MARTINA MCBRIDE I remember when it happened she didn't know where her father or her aunts or her grandmother was and... JANICE WILLIAMS Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various band... IRVINE WELSH But the truth is, I want to be some woman's work boots, not her high heels." "Work boots?" What... ERIN MCCARTHY She never wanted anyone in her kitchen, so the only way you could get to lick the beater or the spat... TIM KELLOGG Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Everyone in my family pretty much has gone here so it seemed like the only option. I think (Lott) al... JENNIFER HOWARD She is as beautiful on the inside as she out and loyal without question to her friends. Quite frankl... GEMMA WILLIAMSON We'd always be in the kitchen; it was a Saturday morning thing, just sitting there with a big bushel... TAMMY MOORE She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there... HARPER LEE My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When... SUE HUBBELL Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, m... WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was ... MIRANDA JULY If the United Farm Workers would spend as much energy organizing farm workers into unions as it is n... MARC COOPER I had talked to her Sunday evening as she was leaving, before the hurricane came in. She took some i... DOROTHY DEMBOSKI My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pi... GLORIA ESTEFAN She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was-... MARISSA MEYER She remembers so much and I have tapes of her telling stories about the old days. My family used to ... CHARLENE JOHNSON My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen wou... EDIE BRICKELL I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while... LISA BONET For the Wife Beater's Wife With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue Circling to ... BRUCE WEIGL We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT She was alive, and she was stuck in this fucking tunnel, and she had just broken a fuck of a hex war... STACIA KANE Some farmers are losing much of their crop and inputs to dubious farm workers who only come under th... CDE GOCHE I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best ... DARLENE LOVE I love a good breakfast - grits and eggs, French toast, turkey bacon. My grandmother on my father... TYLER PERRY My biggest worry about her was that she would overdo. There were some days we had to almost push her... KAREN KAHL My mother is a certainty. I can count on the watercolour pain in her voice when she calls to say she... TREVOR COLE The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as crea... JENNIFER CRUSIE My grandmother used to make beautiful quilts. I loved to help her pick out the colors. She taught me... HELEN STEWART Emma is very mellow. She likes to come out and have some cookies and coffee in the morning, and to g... HARMONY DOYLE You missed breakfast," Jason announced as Trevor stepped into the large busy kitchen filled with Bra... R.L. MATHEWSON I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ... DARYL HALL Why be an ostrich? MARGARET MITCHELL Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Eliz... STACY SCHIFF A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S... METTE IVIE HARRISON My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bon... HILLARY SCOTT Mama operated under the assumption that I was eight years old and incapable of feeding myself. It wa... MOLLY HARPER This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed... JANE BOWLES Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Only the spider paid no mind when the unicorn called softly to her through the open door. Arachne wa... PETER S. BEAGLE My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in Ca... CAITLIN FLANAGAN Dr. King was always, you know, we were glad to see him come to Chicago. I mostly catered when I star... EDNA STEWART I tried to assure her that ... we would sit down and go over her bills and work some plan out. This ... TRISHA JOHNSON The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO As she rounded a corner one of her favourite songs came on the radio, and sunlight filtered through ... STEVEN GALLOWAY When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For examp... WILDER PENFIELD Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out... MICHAEL FOSSEL From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and re... ROALD DAHL How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though s... SUZANNE COLLINS Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properl... PRINCE ANDREW The first quality about her that struck me was that she always took care of everyone. It was not jus... FELICIA LONDRE As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on i... JAMIE OLIVER [About Susan Sontag] Her quest for meaning, for significance was endless. She described life more as... MICHAEL SILVERBLATT We were setting some good screens to get her open. And it wasn't just her. Everyone was contributing... DYNELLE TADLOCK I don't think anyone can shut her down one-on-one. Even against a zone, we'll still get the ball to ... JIM WEBB The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C.,... ANDRE LEON TALLEY Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safet... MIR NASIR HOSSAIN She has never tried to find out what happened to her family — her mother or her relatives in Irela... CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE At lunchtime, our kitchen was like a mini restaurant: my grandmother and mother had to cook for as m... JEAN-GEORGES VONGERICHTEN She was nine when she came in, and we had her several months. Her home life was not the best. She wa... BRENDA WEBB Every one of my paintings is of some scene or story that I remember when I was a girl. I loved stayi... HELEN STEWART Yes, people laughed at her when she came out with some real clunkers. But they were laughing with he... JANICE MIN [Python] was able to throw the pitches she needed to throw. We've been working with her on some thin... JOHN WALSH She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hos... STEPHEN CHBOSKY There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhap... ERICA JONG For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she ... JUSTIN CRONIN My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I hav... CHERYL LADD Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just t... PATRICK MCGRATH The estate looked vast and prosperous- on the surface, at least. Bella Vista was stunningly lovely, ... SUSAN WIGGS Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did m... FRANCINE RIVERS My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so ou... LUANNE RICE Remembering those days always aroused a mixture of emotions in her—something akin to, but not quit... NICHOLAS SPARKS
More Susan Wiggs
She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. SUSAN WIGGS I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because... SUSAN WIGGS In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ... SUSAN WIGGS She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even... SUSAN WIGGS Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped. SUSAN WIGGS You're never alone when you're reading a book. SUSAN WIGGS Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned. SUSAN WIGGS She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying... SUSAN WIGGS Servers moved among the guests with trays of hors d'oeuvres and the signature cocktail, champagne wi... SUSAN WIGGS She loved old things. The brown-brick place was a survivor of the 1907 earthquake and fire, and prou... SUSAN WIGGS In this life, I had all I ever wanted. Losing Erik was a sadness that knit itself into my soul, but ... SUSAN WIGGS walking again. But being inconspicuous on SUSAN WIGGS An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had... SUSAN WIGGS No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figure... SUSAN WIGGS Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?" "I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "... SUSAN WIGGS It's best to know what your issues are before going ahead with a relationship. SUSAN WIGGS Isabel felt soft and yielding; her blouse felt soft. Everything about her seemed soft, and she smell... SUSAN WIGGS I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people ... SUSAN WIGGS She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when... SUSAN WIGGS Already, Seattle is taking hold of her. She still holds Sedona in the dry tan of her skin and in her... SUSAN WIGGS You have seven writers in your basement?” Donald nods, signing, “They like it here. T... SUSAN WIGGS It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took... SUSAN WIGGS They shared a look, and Tess felt a wave of emotion. How quickly she'd found an affinity with Isabel... SUSAN WIGGS They spent the day with Lucia, who promised that the following day she would take them up to Scala, ... SUSAN WIGGS Is there anything I can do?" He gave her a tired grin. "Crawl in bed with me." She glared ... SUSAN WIGGS She shrugged her shoulders, then shifted her attention to the hand-labeled glass jars of honey. "Whi... SUSAN WIGGS I like the organza tiebacks. They're pretty and ethereal." "Lovely. I think those are the ones.... SUSAN WIGGS Grandfather, is it all right if we join you for a bit?" "Of course. Particularly since you've b... SUSAN WIGGS at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power. SUSAN WIGGS Time for lunch. Take me somewhere good. Somewhere Italian." She chose Vine, one of the cafes on... SUSAN WIGGS The estate looked vast and prosperous- on the surface, at least. Bella Vista was stunningly lovely, ... SUSAN WIGGS I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approa... SUSAN ORLEAN Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in th... SUSAN POWTER At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succ... SUSAN WOJCICKI Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m... SUSAN VREELAND Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on th... SUSAN ORLEAN A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder... SUSAN ORLEAN My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug... SUSAN HAYWARD When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of c... SUSAN MINOT To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, ... SUSAN ORLEAN I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce. SUSAN VASS A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere... SUSAN SONTAG The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both. SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write... SUSAN SONTAG Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we... SUSAN ERTZ Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im... SUSAN COLLINS My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natu... SUSAN EGAN One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to p... SUSAN BYSIEWICZ I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster w... SUSAN ORLEAN The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm t... SUSAN RICE I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much ... SUSAN ESTRICH My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island ... SUSAN ISAACS I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and nee... SUSAN SARANDON I'll never throw away my blue jeans. SUSAN FORD So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time wi... SUSAN SHREVE Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviou... SUSAN ESTRICH We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. SUSAN TAYLOR Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag. SUSAN SONTAG A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp... SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precio... SUSAN SONTAG I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors... SUSAN ORLEAN After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short... SUSAN VREELAND Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be bo... SUSAN SARANDON It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the fin... SUSAN SONTAG Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating th... SUSAN SONTAG We have a great location between Boston and New York, a highly educated work force, and Connecticut ... SUSAN BYSIEWICZ I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an ans... SUSAN OLSEN I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bun... SUSAN OLSEN Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but ... SUSAN CAIN War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is,... SUSAN SONTAG Reality Check His lying is not contigent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your f... SUSAN FORWARD Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to the... SUSAN SONTAG Al forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate... SUSAN SONTAG American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chro... SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of A... SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intelle... SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own expe... SUSAN SONTAG In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art ... SUSAN SONTAG Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the ra... SUSAN SONTAG Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading towa... SUSAN SONTAG I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on... SUSAN SARANDON What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women... SUSAN SONTAG The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience. SUSAN MAUSHART When the enemy has no face, society will invent one. SUSAN FALUDI Ah, Macy Joleen O'James, I love you. More than I ever knew it was possible to love someone. I want t... SUSAN ANDERSEN Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe... SUSAN SONTAG The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. SUSAN SONTAG Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio... SUSAN SONTAG So that’s your sister?” asks Dee in a quiet voice. “Yeah.” “The one you risked y... SUSAN EE We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing SUSAN GLASPELL And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to tak... SUSAN KAY A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [Speech upon being awa... SUSAN SONTAG Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. SUSAN SONTAG Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more ... SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou... SUSAN SONTAG Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. I... SUSAN SONTAG Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, e... SUSAN SONTAG The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. SUSAN SONTAG The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. SUSAN SONTAG It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less inter... SUSAN SONTAG In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents ... SUSAN SONTAG The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontroll... SUSAN SONTAG The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec... SUSAN SONTAG Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. SUSAN SONTAG You're only has good as your last haircut. SUSAN LEE Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be ... SUSAN SONTAG With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the char... SUSAN SONTAG The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion ... SUSAN SONTAG Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a s... SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature. SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ... SUSAN SONTAG One person's constant is another person's variable. SUSAN GERHART Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. SUSAN SONTAG Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it gro... SUSAN COOLIDGE In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret. SUSAN SONTAG A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains o... SUSAN SONTAG Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest sub... SUSAN SONTAG What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death. SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full hu... SUSAN SONTAG Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative... SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou... SUSAN SONTAG Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the... SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon... SUSAN ERTZ Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of men... SUSAN SONTAG Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. SUSAN SHAUGHNESSY Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms,... SUSAN SONTAG Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits. SUSAN SONTAG We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting... SUSAN SONTAG A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp... SUSAN SONTAG Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence,... SUSAN SONTAG AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It ... SUSAN SONTAG AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder... SUSAN SONTAG Always think of your customers as suppliers first. Work closely with them, so they can supply you wi... SUSAN MARTHALLER I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a pa... SUSAN SONTAG Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. SUSAN SONTAG Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us... SUSAN SONTAG Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone n... SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ... SUSAN SONTAG Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks differe... SUSAN CHEEVER What we need is to use what we have. SUSAN SONTAG Sanity is a cozy lie. SUSAN SONTAG Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier. SUSAN RABIN It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. SUSAN SONTAG In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized,... SUSAN SONTAG The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and... SUSAN SONTAG Taste has no system and no proofs. SUSAN SONTAG The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture... SUSAN SONTAG One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.... SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoo... SUSAN ERTZ To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do. SUSAN BLOW Feel the fear and do it anyway. SUSAN JEFFERS What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women... SUSAN SONTAG We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally. SUSAN CAIN The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o... SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. SUSAN ERTZ Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr... SUSAN RICE Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly... SUSAN MINOT If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur... SUSAN RICE Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I ... SUSAN ORLEAN I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kind... SUSAN SONTAG Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide som... SUSAN LIEBERMAN Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some oth... SUSAN ESTRICH You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special th... SUSAN EGAN Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou... SUSAN GEORGE Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. SUSAN SONTAG The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You... SUSAN STRAIGHT The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec... SUSAN SONTAG I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human bei... SUSAN HOWATCH Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuali... SUSAN ESTRICH Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, ... SUSAN WOJCICKI I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell... SUSAN ORLEAN The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. SUSAN SONTAG To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability.... SUSAN SONTAG As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t... SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. SUSAN SONTAG The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. SUSAN SONTAG The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of... SUSAN SONTAG I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. SUSAN SONTAG The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. SUSAN SONTAG Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists... SUSAN SONTAG Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. SUSAN SONTAG What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine w... SUSAN SONTAG Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. SUSAN SONTAG It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less intere... SUSAN SONTAG Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to ... SUSAN CHEEVER Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the partic... SUSAN ORLEAN Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running w... SUSAN LUCCI Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, comm... SUSAN VREELAND Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful ... SUSAN CAIN Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessive... SUSAN CAIN Advertising is very simple in a lot of ways. Advertisers go where the users go, and users are choosi... SUSAN WOJCICKI These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a biparti... SUSAN COLLINS There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. SUSAN ANTON Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the s... SUSAN SONTAG Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when yo... SUSAN ISAACS Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday aftern... SUSAN ERTZ