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
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.
women years lasts
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.
love heartbreak definitions
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.
disappointment maturity contradiction
Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.
beautiful men italian
To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.