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Lucia Berlin quotes: Women's voices always rise two octaves when they talk to cleaning women or cats.

Women's voices always rise two octaves when they talk to cleaning women or cats.

Lucia Berlin quotes: (Cleaning women: You will get a lot of liberated women. First stage is a CR group; second stage is a cleaning woman; third, divorce.)

(Cleaning women: You will get a lot of liberated women. First stage is a CR group; second stage is a cleaning woman; third, divorce.)

Lucia Berlin quotes: Death is healing, it tells us to forgive, it reminds us that we don't want to die alone.

Death is healing, it tells us to forgive, it reminds us that we don't want to die alone.

Lucia Berlin quotes: Her smile, though, no, it was her laugh, a dusky, deep cascading laughter that caught the joy, implied and mocked the sorrow in every joy.

Her smile, though, no, it was her laugh, a dusky, deep cascading laughter that caught the joy, implied and mocked the sorrow in every joy.

Lucia Berlin quotes: shutters as old as Herman Melville.

shutters as old as Herman Melville.

Lucia Berlin quotes: God sends drunks blackouts because if they knew what they had done they would surely die of shame.

God sends drunks blackouts because if they knew what they had done they would surely die of shame.

Lucia Berlin quotes: When your parents are dead your own death faces you.

When your parents are dead your own death faces you.

Lucia Berlin quotes: Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?...I'll do macrame, punk

Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?...

I'll do macrame, punk

Lucia Berlin quotes: I don't think I ever really liked the world until I met him.

I don't think I ever really liked the world until I met him.

Lucia Berlin quotes: Just ignore him," Dixie said. "He's incorrigible.""No way, mama. Encourage me all you want.

Just ignore him," Dixie said. "He's incorrigible."
"No way, mama. Encourage me all you want.

Lucia Berlin quotes: I love houses, all the things they tell me, so that's one reason. I don't mind working as a cleaning woman. It's just like reading a book.

I love houses, all the things they tell me, so that's one reason. I don't mind working as a cleaning woman. It's just like reading a book.

Lucia Berlin quotes: I'm having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.

I'm having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.

Lucia Berlin quotes: She always seemed dead anyway, but nicely so, like an illustration or an advertisement.

She always seemed dead anyway, but nicely so, like an illustration or an advertisement.

Lucia Berlin quotes: I'll bet the Catholic Church lost out on a lot of would-be nuns when they started dressing like ordinary meter maids.

I'll bet the Catholic Church lost out on a lot of would-be nuns when they started dressing like ordinary meter maids.

Lucia Berlin quotes: Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.

Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.

Lucia Berlin quotes: Most American women are very uncomfortable about having servants. They don't know what to do while you are there.

Most American women are very uncomfortable about having servants. They don't know what to do while you are there.

Lucia Berlin quotes: The day my father killed off my mother was the day he stopped knowing me.

The day my father killed off my mother was the day he stopped knowing me.

Lucia Berlin quotes: I exaggerate a lot and I get fiction and reality mixed up, but I don't actually ever lie.

I exaggerate a lot and I get fiction and reality mixed up, but I don't actually ever lie.

Lucia Berlin quotes: Poor people wait a lot. Welfare, unemployment lines, laundromats, phone booths, emergency rooms, jails, etc.

Poor people wait a lot. Welfare, unemployment lines, laundromats, phone booths, emergency rooms, jails, etc.

Lucia Berlin quotes: they say a baby's true babtism occurs when hefirst falls out of bed

they say a baby's true babtism occurs when hefirst falls out of bed

Lucia Berlin quotes: (Advice to cleaning women: Take everything that your lady gives you and say Thank you. You can leave it on the bus, in the crack.)

(Advice to cleaning women: Take everything that your lady gives you and say Thank you. You can leave it on the bus, in the crack.)

Lucia Berlin quotes: One thing I do know about death. The "better" the person, the more loving and happy and caring, the less of a gap that person's death makes.

One thing I do know about death. The "better" the person, the more loving and happy and caring, the less of a gap that person's death makes.