Lessons in Becoming Myself Quotes

“Bob had a great voice and was an expert horseman, which I found very sexy. But that wasn’t the real reason I was attracted to him. The real reason was that he was trouble. He had been brought up in an orphanage, was emotionally unstable, drank way too much, and was self-destructive. It’s a gift. Some people have perfect pitch or photographic memories. Me? You could put me in a roomful of handsome, healthy guys, blindfold me, turn me around three times, and I would walk directly to the one guy in the room who was trouble and lay my head in the guillotine of his lap, smiling all the while like I’d finally come come.”
― Ellen Burstyn, Lessons in Becoming Myself

“That's when I understood deeply that with all my studies of other religions, basically I really am devoted to Jesus. I am not a church-going Christian, not a conventional one by most standards, but in my heart, Jesus is my guru.”
― Ellen Burstyn, Lessons in Becoming Myself