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Top 15 Elizabeth J. Church Quotes (2025 Update)

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “To question, to ponder, and to learn. Education was my drug of choice – classrooms, books, lectures, pushing myself to understand.”

1. “To question, to ponder, and to learn. Education was my drug of choice – classrooms, books, lectures, pushing myself to understand.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “As I watched him, I wondered how many times a heart can heal. Are we allotted a specific number of comebacks from heartbreak? Or is that what really kills us, in the end – not strokes or cancer or pneumonia – but instead just one too many blows to the heart? Doctors talk of ‘cardiac insults’ – such a perfect tun of phrase – but they know nothing of the heart, not truly.”

2. “As I watched him, I wondered how many times a heart can heal. Are we allotted a specific number of comebacks from heartbreak? Or is that what really kills us, in the end – not strokes or cancer or pneumonia – but instead just one too many blows to the heart? Doctors talk of ‘cardiac insults’ – such a perfect tun of phrase – but they know nothing of the heart, not truly.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “Of course women are flighty, I thought. We have more predators than men; we have to operate constantly with greater wariness. Women alone in parking lots can be singled out, mugged, or worse. Our own mates can beat us, kill us. I.”

3. “Of course women are flighty, I thought. We have more predators than men; we have to operate constantly with greater wariness. Women alone in parking lots can be singled out, mugged, or worse. Our own mates can beat us, kill us. I.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “And then I waited, which is easy, in concept. In practice, it’s difficult to resist the impulse to fill silence, to let the person you love off the hook, to let them be.”

4. “And then I waited, which is easy, in concept. In practice, it’s difficult to resist the impulse to fill silence, to let the person you love off the hook, to let them be.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “We have to take flight. It’s not given to us, served up on a pretty, parsley-bordered platter. We have to take wing. Was I brave enough to do that? Or would I be content to remain earthbound?”

5. “We have to take flight. It’s not given to us, served up on a pretty, parsley-bordered platter. We have to take wing. Was I brave enough to do that? Or would I be content to remain earthbound?”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “Of course women are flighty, I thought. We have more predators than men.”

6. “Of course women are flighty, I thought. We have more predators than men.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “My eighty-eight birthday arrives shortly. I cannot fathom that number of years. I admit to seeing an old woman when I look in the mirror–the short, wispy, flyaway white hair that is evident I cut myself, the thick population of brown spots on the backs of my hands and forearms, the still–vibrant blue eyes– and I am surprised, always, because inside, where I live, I am at most forty, still eager for change, still hungry for learning, still curious, still yearning.”

7. “My eighty-eight birthday arrives shortly. I cannot fathom that number of years. I admit to seeing an old woman when I look in the mirror–the short, wispy, flyaway white hair that is evident I cut myself, the thick population of brown spots on the backs of my hands and forearms, the still–vibrant blue eyes– and I am surprised, always, because inside, where I live, I am at most forty, still eager for change, still hungry for learning, still curious, still yearning.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “I drew myself alone, but contentedly so, and purposeful.”

8. “I drew myself alone, but contentedly so, and purposeful.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “I would not open the door to hope, no matter how exquisite her feathers, how promising and sweet her song. I was done with hope.”

9. “I would not open the door to hope, no matter how exquisite her feathers, how promising and sweet her song. I was done with hope.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “Take one Naive Girl. Bring to room temperature in the Big City. Add three cups Academia. If in one cup Encouragement. Fold in two drop Love. Sprinkle with one teaspoon Adoration. Mix thoroughly. Spoon carefully into greased Pan of Matrimony. Bake in Desert Heat for 25. Test doneness with Careless Toothpick. Let cool on Wire Rack of Inertia. Serve with generous dollops of Benign Neglect.”

10. “Take one Naive Girl. Bring to room temperature in the Big City. Add three cups Academia. If in one cup Encouragement. Fold in two drop Love. Sprinkle with one teaspoon Adoration. Mix thoroughly. Spoon carefully into greased Pan of Matrimony. Bake in Desert Heat for 25. Test doneness with Careless Toothpick. Let cool on Wire Rack of Inertia. Serve with generous dollops of Benign Neglect.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “Years later, she would spend countless hours looking at all the photos from that time, marveling at how young she was, how slim, how unlined her face, how luxurious her hair. She thought, when you’re older, looking at your younger self is like looking at a promise you couldn’t keep.”

11. “Years later, she would spend countless hours looking at all the photos from that time, marveling at how young she was, how slim, how unlined her face, how luxurious her hair. She thought, when you’re older, looking at your younger self is like looking at a promise you couldn’t keep.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “What are the evolutionary implications of kindness?”

12. “What are the evolutionary implications of kindness?”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “Passion walks the edge of control, teasing. It looks down at the rocks in a canyon and contemplates plunging, taking one fatal step to the right. It soars, having released the weight of consciousness of all but the moment. At.”

13. “Passion walks the edge of control, teasing. It looks down at the rocks in a canyon and contemplates plunging, taking one fatal step to the right. It soars, having released the weight of consciousness of all but the moment. At.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “But Alden never knew how to measure the weight of a sigh. He could not predict the moment when the petal of a spent rose would release and descend. Alden could not tell me when a screech owl would cry out from a darkened pine bough outside my bedroom window and insinuate itself into my dreams. I.”

14. “But Alden never knew how to measure the weight of a sigh. He could not predict the moment when the petal of a spent rose would release and descend. Alden could not tell me when a screech owl would cry out from a darkened pine bough outside my bedroom window and insinuate itself into my dreams. I.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

Elizabeth J. Church Quote: “Time collapsed at the same time as it expanded.”

15. “Time collapsed at the same time as it expanded.”

— Elizabeth J. Church

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