Mary Jo Putney Quotes

• Un vicario ingenioso dijo una vez que un buen matrimonio es como un par de tijeras con la pareja inseparablemente unida, a menudo moviéndose en direcciones opuestas, pero siempre destruyendo a cualquiera que se interponga entre ellas. El truco está en que las hojas aprendan a trabajar juntas con suavidad, para no cortarse mutuamente.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Witty, Couple, Moving

  Kristin James, Mary Jo Putney, Julie Tetel (1994). “Promised Brides”

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• What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Children, Heart, Childhood

  Mary Jo Putney (1992). “Silk and Secrets”, Onyx Books

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• Competence is a great creator of confidence.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Competence, Creator

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Luxury, Principles, Sometimes

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• I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Years, Enjoy Life, Christmas Love

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• Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Revenge, Children, Father

  Mary Jo Putney, Michael F. Roizen (1999). “The Wild Child”, Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated

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• [On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

  Mary Jo Putney

  New York, Home, Cities

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The burning point”

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• If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Trying, Should, Inevitable

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• I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Vegas, Cities, Taste

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The burning point”

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• we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Sex, Growing Up, Thinking

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Una vez que puedes fingir sinceridad, puedes fingir cualquier cosa.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Fake, Sincerity, Best House

  Mary Jo Putney (2002). “The Spiral Path”, Center Point Pub

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• Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Stupid, People, Silence

  Mary Jo Putney (2002). “The Spiral Path”, Berkley

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• Como los gatos y los helados, las duchas eran uno de los placeres sencillos y sin complicaciones de la vida.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Cat, Simple, Ice Cream

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help

  Mary Jo Putney

  Crazy, Doe, Helping

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• But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Gratitude, Love You, Inspired

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• Pero ¿por qué, pensó irónicamente, un hombre parece más atractivo a medida que está menos disponible? Qué humillante es pensar que una tiene tanto en común con una vaca que estira el cuello a través de una puerta en busca de mejor hierba.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Men, Thinking, Cows

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Bargain”

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• Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Life Is, Deals, Fairs

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Bargain”

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• My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Girl, Brother, Character

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• Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Feet, Chinese, Answers

  Mary Jo Putney (2006). “The China Bride”, p.190, Ballantine Books

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