Don’t Forget to Write Quotes

“The world loves to destroy what it doesn’t understand.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“And you do know the ending of your book.” I looked at her questioningly. “She drives off into the sunset to live exactly how she wants.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“It’s not a mistake if you learn from it.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“Always say yes to new things,” Ada said. “It’s the only way you’ll be able to write about life—if you actually go out and live it.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“None of us knows for sure if there is an afterlife until we leave this world. But what I do know is that we live on through the memories we leave.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“But the only things in life that are worth it are hard.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“That desire for freedom. A gilded cage is still a cage. Most people don’t see the bars that hold them. You and I do.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“You can’t banish me to New Jersey of all places! I won’t go!”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“She was a leopard, camouflaged against her surroundings, but still living her life exactly as she saw fit.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“The world loves to destroy what it doesn’t understand. Some things can be hidden to be protected. Some can’t.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“We all have to make our own mistakes and learn some things the hard way.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“A gilded cage is still a cage. Most people don’t see the bars that hold them.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“live your life the way that you want to. Not the way society or anyone else tells you to. Because you only get this one chance.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“You could be rich as Croesus and still not have class.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“It’s impertinent to talk about money—especially when it’s not your own.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“This was America. Anyone could be anything.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“Don’t say uh. It makes you sound uncertain. Speak with assurance and people will treat you as intelligent.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And don’t ever let anyone tell you we’re the weaker sex.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“None of us knows for sure if there is an afterlife until we leave this world. But what I do know is that we live on through the memories we leave. And that is Ada’s legacy. She will live on through all of us in this room. As long as we remember her and tell our children and our children’s children of the woman who”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“Yes. You, for example, need someone who will stand up to you. You’ll never respect anyone who caves too easily. And you’ll bulldoze over anyone who gets in your way.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“The world loves to destroy what it doesn’t understand. Some things can be hidden to be protected.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“Ada had said that social class was sometimes negotiable in making matches, but often not. And I finally understood she didn’t mean money. She meant values. Core beliefs. The way we treated others. You could be rich as Croesus and still not have class. And while Freddy and I fell into the same category financially, the divide between how we viewed the world was as wide as the ocean in front of me. Shirley as well. Neither of them grew in a vacuum. And she couldn’t care less whom Freddy married or how many children he fathered, as long as she got a front-row seat to any resulting dramatics.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

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― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“Ada nodded. “It’s the curse of our family, I’m afraid.” “What is?” “That desire for freedom. A gilded cage is still a cage. Most people don’t see the bars that hold them. You and I do.” “And Mama?” “Your mother—” Ada hesitated, then shook her head slightly. “She climbed into the cage of her own accord. She saw the outside world and decided against it.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“I’m not letting you give up your dream just so I can keep mine.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“I didn’t understand how these men could claim to be attracted to the fact that I was free, then try to cage me.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“Was it hard?” Ada sighed. “It still is. But the only things in life that are worth it are hard. It was worth it to maintain my independence. And now I can help others.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“A little boy, about ten or eleven years old, narrowly avoided colliding into us. “Bruce!” his mother scolded. “Wait for your sister!” He grinned up at us impishly with a pronounced underbite before he ran back to her.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“THIRTEEN”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

“You need to go live your own life now,”
― Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write