Mary Gaitskill

Quotes

• “If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms o...”
• “The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies di...”
• “The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that linge...”
• “I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early aft...”
• “Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need...”
• “A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as...”
• “Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people accept the first thi...”
• “Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started ou...”
• “It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.”
• “My ambition was to live like music.”