Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Elizabeth Benedict.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Elizabeth Benedict is an American author best known for her fiction, her personal essays, as the editor of three anthologies, and for The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers. Her novels are: Slow Dancing, The Beginner's Book of Dreams, Safe Conduct, Almost, and The Practice of Deceit. She lives in New York City and works as a college admissions consultant.
If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you might not have a story to tell. But I think most people do.
You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.
I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about my decision to keep coloring my hair once it started to go gray, but once I wrote the essay - once the book was in production - I decided to go gray.
What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.
Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.