13+ Judith Thurman Quotes On Religion, Judging Ors And And Marriage

Judith Thurman is an American writer and biographer. She is best known for her biographies of Isak Dinesen and Coco Chanel, as well as her work for The New Yorker, where she has been a staff writer since 1988. Thurman has also written several books of essays and short stories, and has been awarded the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Judith Thurman on life, religion, love.

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman

A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet — Judith Thurman

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career. — Judith Thurman

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life. — Judith Thurman

We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible. — Judith Thurman

Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine. — Judith Thurman

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish. — Judith Thurman

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity." — Judith Thurman

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room. — Judith Thurman

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize. — Judith Thurman

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes. — Judith Thurman

As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors. — Judith Thurman

If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it. — Judith Thurman

Life Lessons by Judith Thurman

1. Judith Thurman's work teaches us the importance of understanding the complexities of the human experience and how the past shapes the present.
2. Through her writing, she encourages us to be open-minded and to embrace diversity and different perspectives.
3. Her work also highlights the power of storytelling and how it can be used to create meaningful connections and foster understanding between people.