Quotes by : Mary Gaitskill

Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the....

A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time....

The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible....

Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable....

My ambition was to live like music.

Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for....

Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelings—it does....

Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people....

I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start....

The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace....