Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Caryl Rivers

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Caryl Rivers.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Caryl Rivers is an American novelist and journalist. Her 1984 novel Virgins was a New York Times Best Seller and sold millions of copies around the world. Her articles have appeared in major publications such as The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times.

American - Novelist | Born: 1937

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Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

Caryl Rivers

What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

Caryl Rivers

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

Caryl Rivers

Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.

Caryl Rivers

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

Caryl Rivers

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

Caryl Rivers

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

Caryl Rivers

Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.

Caryl Rivers

[On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.

Caryl Rivers

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Caryl Rivers

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