Quote

My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

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
Whole
Always
Life
Operating
Giver
Belongs
General
Policy
Worry

More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

Image
Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because it was. Being a woman seemed vulnerable and sad. Even the strong women I knew - and they were all strong - had earned their strength through enduring huge disappointments and tremendous struggles.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
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
Image
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
too many maniacs not enough michelangelos
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
You have no idea how strong my love is!
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
When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack [in the stall]. and I was like, If you tell anyone what you've seen...
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
Elizabeth Gilbert