Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth M. Gilbertis an American author, essayist, short story writer, biographer, novelist, and memoirist. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which as of December 2010 has spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and which was also made into a film by the same name in 2010...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 July 1969
CityWaterbury, CT
CountryUnited States of America
father feet long
Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .
elements want way
We live in this society where you must constantly be reinventing yourself. The big question is what are you doing next. The only thing they want is composed of these three elements: They want you to do it the exact same way because they want more of it; but they want it to be totally different; and they want it to be better. That's all you have to do. You just have to do something that's exactly the same, totally different, and better.
passion kissing night
I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
inspirational learning-something-new liz
Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
order challenges comfort
But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.
thinking feminism made
I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.
night knowing lilies
If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.
love heartbreak choices
There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.
self-esteem thinking resentment
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
desire desire-for-success recognition
You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
bliss chasing whole-life
I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?
thinking new-boyfriend spoil
You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.
writing years two
I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.
thinking people way
In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.