You Think It, I'll Say It Quotes

“I had no idea, of course, that of all the feelings of my youth that would pass, it was this one, of an abundance of time so great as to routinely be unfillable, that would vanish with the least ceremony.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“It’s not that you’re wrong. But when you say stuff like this, it makes life a lot less enjoyable.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“Part of getting what you want is asking for it.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can't imagine running out of things to say.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“Plus, it made me nervous, because was this the time in my own life before I found someone to love and had a family and looked back longingly on my youthful freedom? Or was it the beginning of what my life would be like forever?”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“In general, I have no desire to ever have another conversation about Hillary Clinton, to debate the role her gender played. I’m not sure I want to have any conversation about sexism. If someone doesn’t see that gender played a huge role, why would I waste my time trying to convince them?”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“Did I used to think being pretty was my primary obligation because I was in some way delusional? Or was it that I'd absorbed the messages I was meant to absorb with the same diligence with which I studied? As the mother of a daughter, I hope she won't judge herself as harshly as I judged myself, but her personality is so unlike mine - she is boisterous and outspoken - that I'm not inordinately concerned.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“Because honestly, to this day, I don't really know what made him interested in me. It's not that I hate myself, at least not most of the time - it's just that it wouldn't have been difficult for Jason to find a woman who was prettier, or more of a fighter for the underdog, or both. The one time I asked him about it, and I tried to ask as casually, as unpathetically, as possible, given that it's an inherently pathetic question, he said, "Because you had your act together." I think he was referring less to my career than to my not being anorexic or flat-out insane, in contrast to his previous girlfriends; one of them had literally weighed all her meals on a postage scale.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“I have no idea, of course, that of all the feelings of my youth that would pass, it was this one, of an abundance of time so great as to routinely be unfillable, that would vanish with the least ceremony.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can’t imagine ever running out of things to say.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“Other people were so unsuccessful at fending off love! Members of Congress who had affairs with their aides, or students who I'd known in college, girls who as freshmen declared themselves lesbians, then graduated with boyfriends- to give in to such love represents, for them, a capitulation or a betrayal, yet apparently the pull was so strong that they couldn't resist. That was what I didn't understand, how people made the leap from not mattering in each others' lives to mattering.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“Presumably, the campus of Dartmouth in the early nineties—like college campuses in every decade, like towns and cities everywhere—was home to many other virgins, average-looking girls and boys and also grown-ups afraid that they were too ugly to be loved, convinced that this private shame was theirs alone.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“I’m relieved to have aged out of that visceral sense that my primary obligation is to be pretty, relieved to work at a job that allows me to feel useful.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“more than once, I’ve thought that cribbage will probably do more in the long term for my marriage than sex—”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“This made Kirsten feel such rage at Lucy that it was almost like lust.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“They laughed, and they started making steak for dinner, or sausage, although, because of the kind of people they were (insufferable people, Nell thinks now), it had to be grass-fed or free-range or organic. And not too frequent.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“Perhaps: What is it about Trump’s business record that you find most persuasive?”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“That Mark’s a pediatric cardiologist mostly offsets—to me, if not to everyone—how he’s also kind of an asshole.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“Coordinating the calendars of five men in their forties is like herding cats.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“All the more reason for you to go”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It