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List of Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 633 inspiring quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert.

About Elizabeth Gilbert

  • Born: July 18, 1969
  • Occupation: Author
    • I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman.
    Thinking Want Chickens
    I was a bartender for a long time, so i know how to make drinks, but i'm more likely to offer them than to have them. i think this is one of the reasons why i get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why i get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.
    Writing Grandmother Thinking
    God wants us to be in joy, god wants us to be happy. because of this extraordinary consciousness and this great ability for wonder and marvel, and without denying any of the terrors and horrors of the world, we also have an obligation toward joy and toward miracle and excitement.
    Joy Miracle World
    I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.
    Party People House
    I'm not particularly inventive. if you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, i wouldn't be able to do it. but if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, i could. it all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. i'm not a fabulist. i'm more of a reporter.
    Writing Years Two
    I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but i think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure.
    Disappointment Thinking People
    I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.
    Kind Trauma Ability
    I worked at the original coyote ugly bar when i was a young, unpublished writer. then later when i became a writer, i wrote an article about it for gq. disney read this article about this filthy, disgusting pit in the east village [of new york city], where we used to set the bar on fire to get customers away from us, and said, "that's a great movie for kids!" they made the fantastic coyote ugly movie, now legendary.
    New York Kids Fire
    A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. so it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody's pathologies. and then it would get really detailed. and then it would get really sweaty. and then you're like, "this isn't a doctor! i would like to see a degree, mister!"
    Doctors Talking Voice
    I spent a week living as a man. which was actually, i'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.
    Sorry Men Week
    I have more compassion than if i had led a life where everything worked out exactly as i had planned or if i had never been wounded or if i had never been betrayed or i had never been harmed. i don't think i would be as good a person.
    Thinking Compassion Would Be
    All the parts of us that we ever were are always going to be with us. you make space to carry them and you just try not to let them drive. but you can't chuck them out either.
    Space Trying Chuck
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