The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

- Lisa Alther

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

- Lisa Alther

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

- Lisa Alther

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

- Lisa Alther

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

- Lisa Alther

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

- Lisa Alther

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

- Lisa Alther

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

- Lisa Alther

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

- Lisa Alther