Judith Rossner Quotes & Sayings

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing. — Judith Rossner

I'm a lousy journalist. — Judith Rossner

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing. — Judith Rossner

She felt as though she'd acquiesced in her own rape ... — Judith Rossner

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel. — Judith Rossner

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is. — Judith Rossner

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing. — Judith Rossner

My abiding theme is separations. — Judith Rossner

need to talk about my mother," one of the women said. Her name was Susan. She was blond, very pretty, a stockbroker. Her mother was dying of cancer. "I have this horrible feeling of never having even known her. All my life, my father . . . was like a god to me. I worshipped him. I couldn't understand why he ever married my mother. He was so special and she's just . . . I always thought she was just this ordinary, everyday . . . I had no sense of her dignity, her nobility, really. She raised five kids and kept a house and gave him the support he needed and totally subjugated herself to him, to all of us, really, to our needs, and now when I think . . . She's even — Judith Rossner

I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer. — Judith Rossner

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad. — Judith Rossner

I was dictating to my mother when I was 5. — Judith Rossner

When she was naked she generally found her body rather beautiful, although she could never in a million years have admitted this to anyone. In clothes, in front of other people, she felt ashamed of her weight, her sloppiness, always something, but it was more because of what she felt they saw when they looked at her. Now — Judith Rossner

Sexually he was like a dose of anesthetic, he made her go dead all over, but he was so nice! — Judith Rossner

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky. — Judith Rossner

I'd rather be seduced than comforted. — Judith Rossner