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Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.
— Harriet Lerner
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
— Edward M. Lerner
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
— Max Lerner
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
— Jaime Lerner
Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.
— Jaime Lerner
Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet
— Harriet Lerner
A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
— Max Lerner
Men die but an idea does not.
— Alan Jay Lerner
The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media, I said, meaninglessly.
— Ben Lerner
[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.
— Betsy Lerner
Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.
— Harriet Lerner
People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability.
— Harriet Lerner
There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.
— Alan Jay Lerner
The body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.
— Harriet Lerner
Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.
— Harriet Lerner
The nimble of mind long for the challenge of new discoveries. Weary minds cling to what is already known.
— K. Lee Lerner
When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.
— Gerda Lerner
It's just a game," she says. Make no mistake: people who say it's just a game are out for blood.
— Betsy Lerner
what fuels human unhappiness in both the personal and political realm can be boiled down to these three key emotions - anxiety, fear, and shame.
— Harriet Lerner
When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.
— Sandra Lerner
Whatever your sex fantasy is with your partner, consider it normal.
— Harriet Lerner
Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.
— Harriet Lerner
Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.
— Harriet Lerner
At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.
— Sandra Lerner
We all fear change, even as we seek it.
— Harriet Lerner
Judging people for whom they love (a same sex partner) rather than by whom they harm, should in itself merit a psychiatric diagnosis.
— Harriet Lerner
Winning our fans' approval will come from all of us doing the right things for the right reasons, me included.
— Randy Lerner
I seek peace, let me BE peace.
— Michael Lerner
I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.
— Ben Lerner
Read, re-read and un-read!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel.
— Ben Lerner
I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former
— Ben Lerner
[A] "poem" is understood as [something] referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures
— Ben Lerner
The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.
— Ben Lerner
You can't evaluate a prospective partner if you insulate your relationship from your family and friends
and his. — Harriet Lerner
and his. — Harriet Lerner
We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
— Alan Jay Lerner
It's the worst sort of snobbery to condemn a book without reading it, merely because it's popular.
— Rose Lerner
When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness.
— Harriet Lerner
Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.
— Gerda Lerner
If I do decide to have a Girl's Gone Wild moment, I want it to be with some hot young thing, not a senior citizen-Jaycie Lerner
— Natasha Larry
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
— Jaime Lerner
Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.
— Edward M. Lerner
The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.
— Harriet Lerner
There's a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don't need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.
— Harriet Lerner
I understood Truman Capote's brilliant assessment of the writer's dilemma: When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip.
— Betsy Lerner
There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.
— Max Lerner
One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.
— Edward M. Lerner
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.
— Harriet Lerner
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
— Max Lerner
We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.
— Sandra Lerner
Get this under control as soon as you can young lady, because no one here gives a damn about your unlimited power-Mason Lerner
— Natasha Larry
It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.
— Harriet Lerner
Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done.
— Harriet Lerner
Men are often (though not always) the pursuers for sex, just like women are often (though not always) the pursuers for conversation.
— Harriet Lerner
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
— Jaime Lerner
But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.
— Betsy Lerner
If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.
— Harriet Lerner
I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.
— Randy Lerner
What counted was not the facts but the fears.
— Max Lerner
I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.
— Ben Lerner
We need to hear the sound of our voice for what we think and need.
— Harriet Lerner
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
— Edward M. Lerner
Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.
— Harriet Lerner
venting anger does not solve the problem that anger signals.
— Harriet Lerner
You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
— Alan Jay Lerner
What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same.
— Harriet Lerner
People say things die in winter, but it isn't true, mostly. They just gather their strength.
— Rose Lerner
Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.
— Ben Lerner
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
— Max Lerner
If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
— Randy Lerner
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
— Jaime Lerner
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
— Max Lerner
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
— Max Lerner
You know teenage boys, you own one-Mason Lerner
— Natasha Larry
I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
— Ben Lerner
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
— Alan Jay Lerner
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.
— Ben Lerner
Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
— Alan Jay Lerner
How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me?
— Ben Lerner
Loneliness Ends With Love
— Al Lerner