Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep.
Elizabeth GilbertI spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.
Elizabeth GilbertIt seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.
Elizabeth GilbertI watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.
Elizabeth GilbertWhen I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn't feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken a path of self-preservation.
Elizabeth Gilbert