Quotes by J. Courtney Sullivan

J. Courtney Sullivan

A kid thinks her mother is just that — hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn’t want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women’s private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn’t.

Children

Kids

Mother

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while Im walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

Character

Real

Worry

Every woman needs secrets,’ her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally’s in the rearview mirror. ‘Remember that when you’re old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman’s life everyone else’s business–you have to dig out a little place that’s only yours.

Eye

Mirrors

Mother

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

Behinds

Fiction

Greatest Love

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don’t talk or care about feminism anymore, that it’s totally over. But it’s not.

Feminism

Girl

Thinking

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

Men

Thinking

Way

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

Dinner

Dressing Up

Guy

I love the smell of a mans skin.

Skins

Smell

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

Heartache

Littles

Night

If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn’s place right now. She didn’t want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.

Different

Feelings

Moving

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Apologizing

Behinds

Boys

Character

Children

Clothes

Different

Dinner

Dirty

Disappear

Dog

Dressing Up

Drinking

Eye

Fall

Fate

Father

Feelings

Feet

Feminism

Fiction

Girl

Giving

Greatest Love

Guy

Heartache

Individual

Inspirational

Kids

Kissing

Liberation

Littles

Marriage

Men

Mirrors

Mistake

Modern

Mother

Moving

Nice

Night

Parent

Reading

Real

Said

School

Shock

Six Year Olds

Skins

Smell

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Quotes by J. Courtney Sullivan

J. Courtney Sullivan

A kid thinks her mother is just that — hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn’t want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women’s private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn’t.

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while Im walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don’t talk or care about feminism anymore, that it’s totally over. But it’s not.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

I love the smell of a mans skin.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn’s place right now. She didn’t want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.

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