Lisa Alther Quotes

July 23, 1944

Lisa Alther (born July 23, 1944) is an American author and novelist. She achieved success with her comic novel Kinflicks (1976), and explored the themes of personal and sexual identity in several subsequent books.

If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

Kinflicks, ch. 2 (1976).

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There was nothing wrong with her that a vasectomy of the vocal chords wouldn't fix.

Lisa Alther
— Kinflicks, ch. 4 (1976).

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I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Lisa Alther
— Kinflicks, ch. 7 (1976).

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He picked her up out of the dirt and turned her into the clod she was today.

Lisa Alther
— Original Sins, pt. 4, ch. 1 (1981)

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One day, maybe she'd stick around to explore her own capacity for the dark, but at the moment all she wanted was a cheeseburger.

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— Kinflicks

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The Sizemores are the laughing stock of wannabee genealogy. They claim Cherokee descent, but their paper trail shows them to be white.

Lisa Alther
— Kinfolks

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