Top 200 Jane Smiley Quotes (2025 Update) [Page 5]

201. “Margret saw that this is how it is that folk are made to desire what they know they should not have, they are made to wait for it, so that when it comes, no matter how dark and full of sin and repellent it is, they are glad enough to welcome it.”

— Jane Smiley

202. “She said, “Some are born bossy, some achieve bossiness, and some have bossiness thrust upon them.”

— Jane Smiley

203. “Sometimes the thing that you wanted to do did make you sigh, just because it was a hard thing to do.”

— Jane Smiley

204. “Otherwise, my life passed in a blur, that blessing of urban routine. The sense of distinct events that is so inescapable on a farm, where every rainstorm is thick with odor and color, and usefulness and timing, where omens of prosperity or ruin to come are sought in every change, where any of the world’s details may contain the one thing that above all else you will regret not knowing, this sense lifted off me. Maybe another way of saying it is that I forgot I was still alive.”

— Jane Smiley

205. “Solidarity is the most important thing. The bosses and the bankers have it. We have to have it, too.”

— Jane Smiley

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