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

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Judith Thurman

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

- Judith Thurman