Quotes by : Mary Karr

There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes....

It's hard to be an articulate ghost.

But what if I don't believe in God? It's like they've sat me in front of a mannequin and said, Fall in....

I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are....

I think about the story of Job I heard in Carol Sharp's Sunday school. How he sort of learned to lean....

We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.

Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the....

Standing in the shower, I feel something on the back of my leg that turns out to be my ass.

. . . for a good story, told often enough puts you in rooms you've never occupied.