Carry the Dog Quotes

“You can deflect yourself away, for love.”
― Stephanie Gangi, Carry the Dog

“Watching the messy narrative of life make its way—bearing witness, being present—is its own pleasure. After a certain age, it might not be fun, but it’s too fascinating to fear.”
― Stephanie Gangi, Carry the Dog

“Aging, it’s an accumulation of small losses and tiny glitches that you don’t notice and then you do and you ignore them at first and then you can’t.”
― Stephanie Gangi, Carry the Dog

“This is how it goes now. I leave home, I’ve done my best, I think I look good, I feel good and then I catch my reflection in a window or a mirror. There is a split second before I recognize myself.”
― Stephanie Gangi, Carry the Dog

“Anyway, I came to love living alone. Talk to most women who live alone and they’ll tell you, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.”
― Stephanie Gangi, Carry the Dog

“When I catch my reflection lately, I never see what I think I am going to see. I don’t look like I think I look. My first thought is always, Who is that? It’s jarring. I wish people would stop saying, “Age is just a number.” Hello, the outside no longer matches the inside! My changing looks is a situation I have to manage from here on out. It’s work. I’m working on it. I don’t want a nasty shock every time I unexpectedly see my reflection.”
― Stephanie Gangi, Carry the Dog

“Gary considers Viagra to be the greatest invention of the twentieth century, tied only with air-conditioning. He’s an old guy, one of millions who want to solve time. I’ve read the erectile dysfunction brochure. I want to be supportive. I want to protect his ego. Hell, I want to solve time too. I mentally catalog my own issues—the dryness, the loose grip, the slice of pain, the rogue peeing—but I would never discuss my broken-down vagina with Gary. Never! A fundamental right for men, virility into old age, reads as pathetic for women.”
― Stephanie Gangi, Carry the Dog

“I’m funnier now that I’m of a certain age. I’m not allowed to flirt overtly anymore—that reads desperate—but a smart mouth on an older woman, that’s sitcom approved.”
― Stephanie Gangi, Carry the Dog

“My idea is to look back from the brink of sixty and tell my story. The brink of sixty, it’s rough terrain for anybody, time to take stock of your life even if you didn’t have Miriam Marx as a mother.”
― Stephanie Gangi, Carry the Dog

“It occurs to me that “closure” also means being okay with no closure.”
― Stephanie Gangi, Carry the Dog