Quotes by Gloria Naylor

• Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.
• One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
• Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.
• Life is accepting what is and working from that.
• I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
• Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
• Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.