Quotes by Judith Thurman

“Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.”

“This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.”

“Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette,”

“a day of art at the theater.”

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place youve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.