Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see ou…

- Maureen Howard

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

- Maureen Howard

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

- Maureen Howard

I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom…

- Maureen Howard

Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

- Maureen Howard

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

- Maureen Howard

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

- Maureen Howard

Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and lived as far as I could …

- Maureen Howard

Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

- Maureen Howard