Alice Bird Babb Quotes & Sayings

Lately, he'd felt like his bones were God's kindling. That God must be awfully cold to set so many fires. — Cynthia Bond

But my foster mother never explained to me that there can be a deep loneliness in modern sanity too. That madness can be its own form of solace. — Diana Abu-Jaber

Even now, after a lifetime of human companionship, I am hard-pressed to understand fully mankind's fascination with those little marks that they so carefully impress on sheets of paper. — Sally Smith O'Rourke

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently. — Margaret Smith

Chaos didn't know what this meant. He kept feeling like somehow, intending to travel across land, he'd traveled through time instead. — Jonathan Lethem

Hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. — Margaret Atwood

My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was. — Isabel Allende

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men. — Joe Frazier