"There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all th...
You have no idea how strong my love is!
More Elizabeth Gilbert quotes
"Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was b...
"Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone...
"He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.
"He said, "Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatom...
"If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from you...
"I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don...
"Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.
"The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
"My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't...
"Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out an...
"I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thous...
"My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and here’s how I can t...
"Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any on...
"Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go ...