Ruth Reichl
Related She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he... BERNARDO BATIZ But she loved her dad; she was a daddy's girl. She said her father had changed the life insurance an... MALINDA GONZALES BETTY SMITH LATIKA TEOTIA ANGELINA JOLIE She had it all going for her. She was very popular, she was a great student from a great family, and... J. TYLER MAKEPEACE There was a little girlKRISTEN MCKEE GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a be... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised m... ERNEST GAINES KEN FOLLETT She was a very devoted mother. She gave her life to her two kids. WALLDON DASILVA She came here to change her life, to get her daughter back -- that was what was real and pure in her... ANDREW LLOYD She was nine when she came in, and we had her several months. Her home life was not the best. She wa... BRENDA WEBB She had that courage and that heart. She was never selfish, and this is another example of it. She g... BEATRIZ LOPEZ JUSTIN CHON Ophelia was surprised by how easily she lied. She had two stolen keys in her pocket, and the lies we... KAREN FOXLEE CASSANDRA CLARE We miss her. She had a happy life ... she was at a point in her life where she was comfortable with ... AMY URIELL Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC I expected her to be pleased and excited. Sadly, she was no such thing. When it arrived my mother bu... GREG DYKE STIEG LARSSON CHIEF JOSEPH DIANE SETTERFIELD ROSS CALIGIURI STEPHEN CHBOSKY CHARLOTTE BRONTë I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her... JAIME CLAMPITT One little girl asked her mom if she could take $20 out of her piggy bank, ... I asked her if she di... TROY MILLER CASSANDRA CLARE STEWART O'NAN I came out and saw the girl stumbling out of the car. I asked her if she was OK. She said yeah. She ... JULIE GILBERT It was something that was very minor. She worked out and thought she was ready to go. She got to the... CHARLES WELLS She was confused. One of the questions she had was, 'Did someone go to jail for it?' It hurt to tell... CONNIE TRUJILLO This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed... JANE BOWLES She had a tragedy in her life, and was always interested in medicine, but it was always out of her r... CLAUDE COLEMAN Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who w... COURTNEY CAROLA She did what she thought in her own professional judgment was best. She might not have been right, b... JOEL HIRSCHHORN KAGE BAKER THOMM QUACKENBUSH The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, he... PHILLIP NOYCE She's saying that she was raped by her father, he threatened her, he threatened her and her mother i... MIKE WRIGHT ELIZABETH HARDWICK Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the... ROXANNA ALIBA KAZIBWE She took over your life in a good way. Towards the end of her life, I thought of her as a mother as ... SUSAN DUEHLMEIER She lived alone there, and that is what I think had made her so vulnerable. She was like the rest of... LINDA SHULTZ There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was ... MICHAEL CHABON POLLY TOYNBEE CASSANDRA CLARE BETTY SMITH JOHN GREEN HOLLY BLACK GUSTAVE FLAUBERT CASSANDRA CLARE She was disoriented. She was out and had to be helped to her corner, despite the fact that she was s... MAUREEN SHEA PHILIP PULLMAN CASSANDRA CLARE I know in my mind that she went right up to heaven. I know she forgave her mother. She knows her mot... JENNIFER CZAJKA We knew she was that good when we first started her, but she had some setbacks. BOB BAFFERT I saw her when she was born. I carried her when she was born. I carried her when she died. I saw her... EDWIN REYES I stumbled across some information on her during the spring of 1977. What struck me about her was th... WILDA SMITH HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I knew she had the ability. What is commendable on her part was that she did everything -- she broug... KRISTEN PETERSON PAULO COELHO ANN PATCHETT DANIELLE STEEL The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.JAMES ROBERTSON MARISSA MEYER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think she would say her life was a gift, and ... basically the most important thing about her is s... FC DALLAS ALAN MOORE He was her life. She loved that boy, did everything for him. She never said a word about him being v... AUTRAULIA HARRIS I don't know what she was thinking. She is just a young girl, and she must have panicked. I heard he... ANTHONY FARRISI LEO TOLSTOY D.H. LAWRENCE NEIL GAIMAN JODI PICOULT IAN MCEWAN C. JOYBELL C. MIRANDA JULY My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working. DEAN STOCKWELL When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st... JANE BIRKIN He was supposed to be the first man to tell her that she was beautiful and help her determine who sh... ANAIS TORRES This was all her own idea. She woke up Saturday morning and she had had lemonade stands before. ... ... CHRISTINE KING PHILIPPA GREGORY We have complete confidence in her. She had a shaky first inning; she was nervous. After she settled... JEFF KIDD She didn't have anyone pushing her, but because she was able to pass people, it kept her going. I ne... JENNA BOND She was Anna and that was it. There was not a vain bone in her body. She dressed simply, but always ... HELEN LINHART The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She... HAN KANG LEO TOLSTOY JAN DE BONT KIMBERLY DERTING IAN MCEWAN #moment of truth
"She was very close to her mom ;
And that how i ruined it" KHALIQ SHAIKH He only allowed himself a quick glance at her, knowing as soon as he saw her that she was the kind o... ADI ALSAID NEIL GAIMAN PETER USTINOV PAUL BOWLES STIEG LARSSON
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RUTH RENDELL RUTH PORAT I live in a beautiful part of British Columbia, and I run through the rainforest. I do have to look ... RUTH OZEKI BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading. RUTH OZEKI When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind ... RUTH NEGGA You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be abl... RUTH SMELTZER RUTH ROSS I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thi... RUTH WILSON We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we fe... RUTH RENDELL BABE RUTH RUTH ROSS RUTH GRAHAM RUTH BEECHICK BABE RUTH BABE RUTH RUTH GORDON BABE RUTH RUTH ROSS RUTH HUBBARD RUTH MORGAN BABE RUTH RUTH ROSS RUTH BENEDICT RUTH GORDON RUTH STOUT ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak... RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH GORDON RUTH HUBBARD RUTH HUBBARD RUTH BENEDICT When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt. RUTH ALMOG BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH RUTH STOUT RUTH BENEDICT BABE RUTH RUTH BENEDICT BABE RUTH RUTH GORDON RUTH PORAT A fox is a wolf who sends flowers. RUTH BROWN 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It... RUTH RENDELL The knives of jealousy are honed on details. RUTH RENDELL I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural tr... RUTH OZEKI He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one... RUTH PARK If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag y... RUTH GLICK I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec... RUTH B I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ... RUTH B To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiou... RUTH HARRIS RUTH STOUT Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I ... RUTH OZEKI Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her. RUTH NEGGA BABE RUTH BABE RUTH I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful. RUTH HANDLER Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult ... RUTH HANDLER BABE RUTH RUTH PORAT The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what... RUTH WILSON RUTH BENEDICT The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make... RUTH OZEKI The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on ... RUTH BUZZI In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of peo... RUTH HARRISON RUTH GORDON Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized. RUTH WILSON I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishi... RUTH OZEKI I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford... RUTH RENDELL They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women. RUTH HANDLER Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, co... RUTH GLICK My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm l... RUTH BUZZI In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers te... RUTH RENDELL The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. RUTH RENDELL I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective... RUTH RENDELL One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of... RUTH WARE I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obse... RUTH REINHARDT Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I... RUTH NEGGA I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon... RUTH B RUTH BENEDICT RUTH GORDON BABE RUTH BABE RUTH RUTH GORDON RUTH GORDON RUTH HUBBARD BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him. RUTH ELLIS People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won... RUTH RENDELL Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau? RUTH SAUNDERS Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye... RUTH REINHARDT I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How ... RUTH RENDELL RUTH PORAT I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then... RUTH RENDELL Beth Garber did very well in the No. 2 spot. Jenny Christen, in the No. 6 spot and her first time on... RUTH PINKERTON She's another Tina Turner is what I see, RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; ... RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays. RUTH BROWN And, of course, I was singing cheap. RUTH BROWN There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o... RUTH BROWN RUTH HUBBARD In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ... RUTH NEGGA We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th... RUTH RENDELL People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ... RUTH OZEKI People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no... RUTH RENDELL I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n... RUTH NEGGA I don't know that we'll be able to sell, statewide, anything less than a five-buck limit. CHARLES RUTH My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ... RUTH RENDELL Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950... RUTH RENDELL Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done. RUTH ASAWA He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house ... RUTH CISERO To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oce... RUTH BERNHARD We really lifted that ball and there was some great intercepts to see. RUTH AITKEN And I can promise you that we're not going to go to the Coastal Plain and come back with a three-buc... CHARLES RUTH The Stanford Mansion is certainly the jewel of Sacramento, ... and we're adding it to the crown jewe... RUTH COLEMAN BABE RUTH Even though this pegs to 150 percent of market, the premiums are still lower or benefits more expans... RUTH CASE RUTH GORDON I was like the queen of the South. RUTH BROWN The side of his face had gone numb so he went to a dentist, but was told he should see a doctor as w... RUTH LIGGETT I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly... RUTH RENDELL If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I f... RUTH NEGGA When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot o... RUTH OZEKI For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core... RUTH GLICK
Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... 
Acceptance made her realize that she had it in her to boldly and gracefully handle her own life. She... 
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... 
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic... 
She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... 
I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. Sh... 
Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... 
It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried... 
She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h... 
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believ... 
As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time ... 
And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she ... 
Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming ... 
How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she... 
For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she rec... 
A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady... 
In the pause that followed, Shane understood why people said their hearts broke. She always thought ... 
She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was ... 
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of t... 
She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... 
She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all.
..She still was not happy, she never had been. What caused this inadequacy in her life? Why did ever... 
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... 
You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely remi... 
There was a little girl 
Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to me... 
But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... 
Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... 
She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was-... 
Mine eyes
Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;
Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my... 
...She wasn't anyone special. She wasn't that brave, that clever or that strong. She was just somebo... 
The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l... 
In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha... 
She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow... 
She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. ... 
She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundam... 
Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for ... 
For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was ... 
Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit... 
Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... 
I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life. 
But she let herself think of Jay. And of the kiss. And suddenly the damp chill that had been clingin... 
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. 
The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous,... 
Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi... 
I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal. 
My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower... 
I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry ble... 
If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruise... 
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt? 
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder. 
Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit. 
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imaginatio... 
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. 
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. 
To be somebody you must last. 
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. 
Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy... 
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day... 
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people t... 
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their bre... 
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active... 
The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of th... 
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the... 
Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. 
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, ... 
Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system. 