Half the Kingdom Quotes

“Jack said, “No more buying books from Amazon till I’ve read the ones on my shelves.”
― Lore Segal, Half the Kingdom

“Like the Dorothy Parker heroine who spends her days and nights not calling the lover who does not call her,”
― Lore Segal, Half the Kingdom

“I once wrote a suicide story: A woman watches a truck bearing down toward the place on the sidewalk where she stands waiting to cross. She thinks, ‘If that truck were to run me over I wouldn’t have to think what to get for supper.’ The truck passes. The woman crosses to the supermarket and takes out her shopping list. It was called ‘Truck.”
― Lore Segal, Half the Kingdom