"The worst thing in the world is..." - Quote by John Updike
The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.
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“Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.”
“It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.”
“Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.”
More on Bitterness
“Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth”
“Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.”
“Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.”
More on Women
“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”
“I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.”
“An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.”