Lisa Alther
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"Lisa Alther" is an American author and novelist. Her first name is pronounced as if it were spelled "Liza".

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I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.