Quote

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Certain
Need
Tattoo
Needs
Commit
Really
Baby
Like
Face
Getting
Faces
Family

More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

Image
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Marriage is not a game for the young.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't imagine the effect it would have on a person 24 hours a day. So then I became more intrigued, and we began a correspondence, and I began visiting [Todd Willingham].
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less self-conscious about how you’re presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it’s all coming from you.
Elizabeth Gilbert