Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford
Jean Staffordwas an American short story writer and novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 July 1915
CountryUnited States of America
Jean Stafford quotes about
american-writer deprived eats inward knowledge woman worse
I know this, and the knowledge eats me like an inward animal: there is nothing worse for a woman than to be deprived of her womanliness.
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He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.
conquering far love practical scholars-and-scholarship
She did observe, with some dismay, that far from conquering all, love lazily sidestepped practical problems.
american-writer rest time
From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.
brain
(My bounded brain was as) unalterable as a ball.