Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later. - Mona Simpson
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.
- Mona Simpson
Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working. - Mona Simpson
Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I… - Mona Simpson
Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I…
Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a… - Mona Simpson
Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a…
Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways. - Mona Simpson
Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.
Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could. - Mona Simpson
Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.
Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what wo… - Mona Simpson
Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what wo…
We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories. - Mona Simpson
We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after - Mona Simpson
So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after
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