Jane Stanton Hitchcock Quotes

Oh God, modern life with all its feelings ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination ... you can make feast of straw.

We all get humiliated at some point or another during our lives. the trick is not to let it make you resentful or defeatist.

Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In many ways they define a society and the values of that society. Librarians to me are the keepers of the flame of knowledge. When I was growing up, the librarian in my local library looked like a meek little old lady, but after you spent some time with her, you realized she was Athena with a sword, a wise and wonderful repository of wisdom.

The key to life is imagination.

People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a life of privileged frivolity where everyone fits around from one party to the next wearing calculated clothes and expensive smiles

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

Dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.