Lucy Ellmann Professions : Novelist Born : October 18, 1956 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Lucy Ellmann Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. Lucy Ellmann men war peace I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last. Lucy Ellmann generations alive mother Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live. Lucy Ellmann women girl baby The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING. Lucy Ellmann agony shopping expression Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
