Quotes by : Mary Karr

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

Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curious....

Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more....

I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She....

I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on....

But it’s a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go. The adrenaline....

But it's a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go.

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

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice....