Alice Munro, a renowned Canadian short story writer, passed away in May 2024, leaving behind her legacy. Let’s read some inspiring quotes by her.
Alice Munro, a Canadian short story writer, was born on 10 July 1931. Her stories offer timeless wisdom that resonate with readers worldwide. She was highly regarded as the “master of the contemporary short story.” Alice Munro passed away on 13 May 2024 at the age of 92. Let's read some inspiring quotes by her.
#1
“Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry.”
#2
“The complexity of things- the things within things- just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.”
#3
“I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.”
#4
“When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But not at all. By the time of ‘Lives of Girls and Women,’ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.”
#5
“I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.”
#6
“My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.”
#7
“I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.”
#8
“Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.”
#9
“I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.”
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