Quotes by : Koren Zailckas

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic....

My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate,....

There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind....

My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone....

I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner....

I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity it's not very....

That's the thing about social drinking: In the end, it's the drinking that creates the scene, not the....

I'm trying to figure out precisely which character flaw might be responsible for my latest life failure.....

It's not rocking the boat, Dad. It's called communication. You're allowed to ask questions. Other people....

Violet remembered that slap; later her mother had called it a "love tap," as if to further confuse love....