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How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good?
— Claire Messud
Life is about deciding what matters. It's about the fantasy that determines the reality.
— Claire Messud
Was this what it meant to grow up, this vast loneliness?
— Claire Messud
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
— Claire Messud
I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.
— Claire Messud
Americans see everything too simply-a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.
— Claire Messud
If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.
— Claire Messud
Death and his zealous minions - dread, despair, disease - can find you anywhere at all, and the armor plate of youth will no longer protect you.
— Claire Messud
I'm forty-two years old - which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one.
— Claire Messud
Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
— Claire Messud
I wanted him to reassure me, and when I saw he wasn't going to, I thought, This is when the shit hits the fan.
— Claire Messud
Her self, then, was represented in her books.
— Claire Messud
Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone.
— Claire Messud
That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.
— Claire Messud
From the beginning, then, but briefly.
— Claire Messud
There's a period of accommodation before you are formally and
— Claire Messud
Geniuses have the shortest biographies.
— Claire Messud
Maybe, instead, I'll set the world on fire. I just might.
— Claire Messud
When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever else, you aren't alone.
— Claire Messud
It shows how long-lived anger is, the desire for vengeance: it has a nuclear half-life, and it teaches people patience in the most sinister way.
— Claire Messud
The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But
— Claire Messud
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
— Claire Messud
Reza, in spite of the tears caught in his lashes like raindrops on a spider's web, did not cry.
— Claire Messud
I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.
— Claire Messud
He was playing on the climbing structure by himself - or "by his own," as the children sometimes charmingly put it.
— Claire Messud
Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?),
— Claire Messud
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