Quotes by Judith Rossner

“It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. Its harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.”

“Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition its something you cant feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so whats all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?”

“My abiding theme is separations.”

“Its 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. Its very sad.”

“She kept encouraging me when I was young, and so I just accepted it ? this was what I was going to do ? I was going to write books, ... But she never said anything about money or success, so none of that was built into my expectations. Just writing and getting published was enough at first.”

“I want to write a book about a schoolteacher whos murdered picking up someone when shes cruising a singles bar.”

“What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been born because they are still tied by an umbilical cord. Relationships between women - daughters, mothers, friends - are one of my strong interests.”

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

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