Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Lucy Ellmann

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Lucy Ellmann.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Lucy Ellmann

Lucy Ellmann is an American-born British novelist based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. — © Lucy Ellmann
Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.
I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last.
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.
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