3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert I used to say, ‘Man, I think I’d be a really good dad. I’ll be a great provider. I’m funny I’ll go on trips with them – I’ll do all sorts of stuff.’ But the momming? I’m not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it’s also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert I know I’m not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I’m not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that’s when the mental illness arrives.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be ‘the happiest moment’ of one’s life.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of ‘Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?’ Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you’re so content.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert I don’t think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert Listen – of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I’m alone and trying to solve a sentence. It’s exciting, even when it’s frustrating, even when I can’t do it right.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert Mine is just a simple old human story – of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn’t always hold.
