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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselvesso how can we know anyone else? Sydney J. Harris		Sunday Dec 14, 2025
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Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. Lisa Alther

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Lisa Alther

Lisa Alther

Lisa Alther (born July 23, 1944, in Kingsport, Tennessee) is an American author and novelist. Her first name is pronounced as if it were spelled Liza.

Alther graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in English literature in 1966. After a brief time in the publishing industry, she moved to Hinesburg, Vermont to raise her daughter. According to Ms. Alther, she wrote two novels, a host of short stories, and received "hundreds of rejection slips" between age 16 and 30, before Kinflicks was accepted for publication.

Alther is the author of five novels, Kinflicks, Original Sins, Other Women, Bedrock, and Five Minutes In Heaven, as well as a small number of published short stories and many magazine articles.

Alther's newest book, to be published in spring 2007, will be a nonfiction work entitled "Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree--the Search for My Melungeon Ancestors" (ISBN 1-55970-832-8).

Other Lisa Alther Quotes

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

She was okay. There was nothing wrong with her that a vasectomy of the vocal cords would not fix.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.