Alice Munro Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever.

  Alice Munro

  Love, Beautiful, Girl

• They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

  Alice Munro

  Age, Sometimes, Hard

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Aug 31, 2014

• I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.

  Alice Munro

  Past, Thinking, Years

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Sep 16, 2010

• As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous combustion, instant fornication, triumph of the senses. What possibilities men and women must see in each other to infer such dangers. Or, believing in the dangers, how often they must think about the possibilities.

  Alice Munro

  Wall, Believe, Men

  Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart (2003). “No Love Lost”, New Canadian Library

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