If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from th…

- Judith Thurman

We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.

- Judith Thurman

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about t…

- Judith Thurman

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillmen…

- Judith Thurman

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

- Judith Thurman

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

- Judith Thurman

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

- Judith Thurman

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

- Judith Thurman

As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "va…

- Judith Thurman