Quotes by : J. Courtney Sullivan

She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.....

The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.

Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.....

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview....

How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and....

It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk about leaking it everywhere.

The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between....

Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of....

With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others....