You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometime…

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a ti…

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our wher…

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testoster…

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place…

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas