Top 15 Ruth Franklin Quotes (2024 Update)

Ruth Franklin Quote: “When gold was first discovered at Sutter’s Mill, back in 1848, San Francisco, still in its infancy, was barely settled. New arrivals lived in canvas tents – poor shelter from the rainy weather. The city’s first buildings were made from ships run aground in the harbor. In 1849, the population was estimated at two thousand men and almost no women.”

1. “When gold was first discovered at Sutter’s Mill, back in 1848, San Francisco, still in its infancy, was barely settled. New arrivals lived in canvas tents – poor shelter from the rainy weather. The city’s first buildings were made from ships run aground in the harbor. In 1849, the population was estimated at two thousand men and almost no women.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “Even President Woodrow Wilson was a devotee: when asked in 1914 whether he would be reelected, Wilson replied, “The Ouija board says yes.”

2. “Even President Woodrow Wilson was a devotee: when asked in 1914 whether he would be reelected, Wilson replied, “The Ouija board says yes.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “The diary ends with a single repeated phrase: laughter is possible laughter is possible laughter is possible.”

3. “The diary ends with a single repeated phrase: laughter is possible laughter is possible laughter is possible.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “Jackson’s awareness that her mother had never loved her unconditionally – if at all – would be a source of sadness well into adulthood. Aside from a single angry letter that she did not send, she never gave voice to her feelings of rejection. But she expressed them in other ways. All the heroines of her novels are essentially motherless – if not lacking a mother entirely, then victims of loveless mothering. Many of her books include acts of matricide, either unconscious or deliberate.”

4. “Jackson’s awareness that her mother had never loved her unconditionally – if at all – would be a source of sadness well into adulthood. Aside from a single angry letter that she did not send, she never gave voice to her feelings of rejection. But she expressed them in other ways. All the heroines of her novels are essentially motherless – if not lacking a mother entirely, then victims of loveless mothering. Many of her books include acts of matricide, either unconscious or deliberate.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “No particular event appears to have sent her into this downward spiral. More likely, Jackson was overwhelmed – for the first time, but hardly the last – by the constellation of social anxiety and familial pressure that left her feeling accepted by no one.”

5. “No particular event appears to have sent her into this downward spiral. More likely, Jackson was overwhelmed – for the first time, but hardly the last – by the constellation of social anxiety and familial pressure that left her feeling accepted by no one.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “Past the turn I might find a mark of Constance’s foot, because she sometimes came that far to wait for me, but most of Constance’s prints were in the garden and in the house. Today she had come to the end of the garden, and I saw her as soon as I came around the turn; she was standing with the house behind her, in the sunlight, and I ran to meet her. “Merricat,” she said, smiling at me, “look how far I came today.” – We Have Always Lived in the Castle.”

6. “Past the turn I might find a mark of Constance’s foot, because she sometimes came that far to wait for me, but most of Constance’s prints were in the garden and in the house. Today she had come to the end of the garden, and I saw her as soon as I came around the turn; she was standing with the house behind her, in the sunlight, and I ran to meet her. “Merricat,” she said, smiling at me, “look how far I came today.” – We Have Always Lived in the Castle.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “If Shirley Jackson’s intent was to symbolize into complete mystification, and at the same time be gratuitously disagreeable, she certainly succeeded.”

7. “If Shirley Jackson’s intent was to symbolize into complete mystification, and at the same time be gratuitously disagreeable, she certainly succeeded.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “If one is bewildered and unhappy, why not show it, and why will not people explain and comfort? But instead – this pretense at calm satisfaction, where underneath there is all the seething restless desire to be off, away from all this anger at self and others, to where there are other conventions, other thoughts, other passions.”

8. “If one is bewildered and unhappy, why not show it, and why will not people explain and comfort? But instead – this pretense at calm satisfaction, where underneath there is all the seething restless desire to be off, away from all this anger at self and others, to where there are other conventions, other thoughts, other passions.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “More than once,” Norris writes in her memoir, “I received an engraved invitation to an on-campus orgy; a more perfect expression of debutante wantonness could not be conceived.”

9. “More than once,” Norris writes in her memoir, “I received an engraved invitation to an on-campus orgy; a more perfect expression of debutante wantonness could not be conceived.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “The very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do anything about it, so long as you keep writing and kind of using it up, as it were. All you have to do – and watch this carefully, please – is keep writing. So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.”

10. “The very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do anything about it, so long as you keep writing and kind of using it up, as it were. All you have to do – and watch this carefully, please – is keep writing. So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “Wrote a play tonight which delights me – it is so myself!”

11. “Wrote a play tonight which delights me – it is so myself!”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “I have never liked the theory that poltergeists only come into houses where there are children, because I think it is simply too much for any one house to have poltergeists and children. – “The Ghosts of Loiret.”

12. “I have never liked the theory that poltergeists only come into houses where there are children, because I think it is simply too much for any one house to have poltergeists and children. – “The Ghosts of Loiret.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “By the end of the first semester, what I wanted to do most in the world was invite a few of my husband’s students over for tea and drop them down the well.”

13. “By the end of the first semester, what I wanted to do most in the world was invite a few of my husband’s students over for tea and drop them down the well.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “Brown, they would later write, had taught them that the goal of reading and criticizing was “to know and understand, not to like or dislike, and the aim of writing was to get down what you wanted to say, not to gesticulate or impress.”

14. “Brown, they would later write, had taught them that the goal of reading and criticizing was “to know and understand, not to like or dislike, and the aim of writing was to get down what you wanted to say, not to gesticulate or impress.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “All the old New England houses are the kind of square, classical type which wouldn’t be haunted in a million years.”

15. “All the old New England houses are the kind of square, classical type which wouldn’t be haunted in a million years.”

— Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin Quote: “She knew also, however, that she would have a rare chance to re-create herself, as had her ancestors, migrating westward nearly a century earlier.”

16. “She knew also, however, that she would have a rare chance to re-create herself, as had her ancestors, migrating westward nearly a century earlier.”

— Ruth Franklin

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