Maeve in America Quotes

“This whole 'leaving' thing? It's in me.”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“Annie Moore never made a fortune or wrote a book or invented a computer, and why should she? Why should immigrants be deemed extraordinary in order to deserve a place at the table?”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“This darkness is a reason to value the light.”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“You can keep your iconic single women, Carrie Bradshaw, Mindy Lahiri, even Liz Lemon; because my model for living as a successful single woman is a fictitious bird from a children’s book.”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“that part of themselves that started off as an irritant and became beautiful only when they themselves embraced”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“Perfection, when contrived, is laughable.”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“Independence is a muscle, one that needs to be stretched and challenged and broken down a little in order to get good and strong.”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“Small talk needs to get big at some phase.”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“Being alone is great for all the small stuff. Seeing whatever you want at the movies. Eating in that weird way you can only eat by yourself. Going on vacation wherever you like. Being alone is ideal for eavesdropping, for really relaxing, and at times for forcing me to be sociable.”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“Is there any greater compliment than someone thinking you’re too gorgeous to be yourself?”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“Aside from getting champagne in your eye or being snapped at by your pet toucan, bemoaning a lack of purpose is the most privileged problem in the known universe so I won’t drone on about it.”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“Living in this city, so far from where I was born, feels like a rare and precious freedom. One I sense is not afforded to many women in the world.”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“Being white in America is so potent, so seductive. It can blind a person without them knowing it. Being white can make a whole community forget who they are and where they came from.”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“It’s troubling to see how privilege accumulates over generations, particularly white privilege in the US, and, when people reach a certain level of safety, to see how they pull the ladder up after themselves.”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“I want him to be funny but also stable, maybe like a successful ophthalmologist who crosses his own eyes when he tells you to follow his pen.”
― Maeve Higgins, Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else