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Claire Messud quotes: How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good?

How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good?

Claire Messud quotes: Life is about deciding what matters. It's about the fantasy that determines the reality.

Life is about deciding what matters. It's about the fantasy that determines the reality.

Claire Messud quotes: Was this what it meant to grow up, this vast loneliness?

Was this what it meant to grow up, this vast loneliness?

Claire Messud quotes: The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

Claire Messud quotes: I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

Claire Messud quotes: Americans see everything too simply-a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.

Americans see everything too simply-a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.

Claire Messud quotes: Once aware of my isolation, I was afraid not of it but of its interruption.

Once aware of my isolation, I was afraid not of it but of its interruption.

Claire Messud quotes: I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

Claire Messud quotes: If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

Claire Messud quotes: I don't want to sleep,' my mother said. 'I want for God's sake, I want to wake up.

I don't want to sleep,' my mother said. 'I want
for God's sake, I want to wake up.

Claire Messud quotes: How angry am I? You don't want to know. Nobody wants to know about that.

How angry am I? You don't want to know. Nobody wants to know about that.

Claire Messud quotes: Death and his zealous minions - dread, despair, disease - can find you anywhere at all, and the armor plate of youth will no longer protect you.

Death and his zealous minions - dread, despair, disease - can find you anywhere at all, and the armor plate of youth will no longer protect you.

Claire Messud quotes: A strangely prolonged lunch involving lobster, that infernally overrated food ...

A strangely prolonged lunch involving lobster, that infernally overrated food ...

Claire Messud quotes: I'm forty-two years old - which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one.

I'm forty-two years old - which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one.

Claire Messud quotes: Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

Claire Messud quotes: I wanted him to reassure me, and when I saw he wasn't going to, I thought, This is when the shit hits the fan.

I wanted him to reassure me, and when I saw he wasn't going to, I thought, This is when the shit hits the fan.

Claire Messud quotes: Her self, then, was represented in her books.

Her self, then, was represented in her books.

Claire Messud quotes: Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone.

Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone.

Claire Messud quotes: That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

Claire Messud quotes: From the beginning, then, but briefly.

From the beginning, then, but briefly.

Claire Messud quotes: There's a period of accommodation before you are formally and

There's a period of accommodation before you are formally and

Claire Messud quotes: Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Claire Messud quotes: Maybe, instead, I'll set the world on fire. I just might.

Maybe, instead, I'll set the world on fire. I just might.

Claire Messud quotes: When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever else, you aren't alone.

When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever else, you aren't alone.

Claire Messud quotes: It shows how long-lived anger is, the desire for vengeance: it has a nuclear half-life, and it teaches people patience in the most sinister way.

It shows how long-lived anger is, the desire for vengeance: it has a nuclear half-life, and it teaches people patience in the most sinister way.

Claire Messud quotes: For so long I had eaten my greens and here - at last! - was my ice-cream sundae.

For so long I had eaten my greens and here - at last! - was my ice-cream sundae.

Claire Messud quotes: The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But

The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But

Claire Messud quotes: I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

Claire Messud quotes: It rained as if the gods were disconsolate, as if spring were a sorrow,

It rained as if the gods were disconsolate, as if spring were a sorrow,

Claire Messud quotes: Reza, in spite of the tears caught in his lashes like raindrops on a spider's web, did not cry.

Reza, in spite of the tears caught in his lashes like raindrops on a spider's web, did not cry.

Claire Messud quotes: If you told me my own story about someone else, I would have assured you that this person was completely unhinged. Or a child. That's always the way.

If you told me my own story about someone else, I would have assured you that this person was completely unhinged. Or a child. That's always the way.

Claire Messud quotes: I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

Claire Messud quotes: Have you ever asked yourself whether you'd rather fly or be invisible?

Have you ever asked yourself whether you'd rather fly or be invisible?

Claire Messud quotes: He was playing on the climbing structure by himself - or "by his own," as the children sometimes charmingly put it.

He was playing on the climbing structure by himself - or "by his own," as the children sometimes charmingly put it.

Claire Messud quotes: Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?),

Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?),

Claire Messud quotes: Was suddenly aware, almost in a panic - a joyful panic - of the wealth of possibility out in the world, and also within myself.

Was suddenly aware, almost in a panic - a joyful panic - of the wealth of possibility out in the world, and also within myself.

Claire Messud quotes: [S]he was my Muse, my alcoholic's bourbon on the rocks: irresistible.

[S]he was my Muse, my alcoholic's bourbon on the rocks: irresistible.

Claire Messud quotes: Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.