Top Memoir Quotes

...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.

Memoir Definition

(n.) Alt. of Memoirs

Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention...

To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born.

This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end.

A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to con...

I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can seem by comparison. Where I came from, we have shriveled down the notion of what consti...

For the longest time I was so sick I didn't have the strength or inclination to read, but looking at my books stacked up on the bedside table was comforting, like having old friends sitting in the roo...

All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches us that there have always been women who went through life...