Caryl Rivers Quotes
From Caryl Rivers, author of numerous works on gender, culture and family issues.
Image: Carly Rivers, novelist and journalist
“He knew he’d have to go to Disney World eventually. It’s middle-class America’s version of a pilgrimage to Mecca. Every family that can scrape up the cash must make the long and arduous journey to a shrine peopled with more minor deities than the slopes of Mount Olympus: Mickey, Donald, Huey, Louie, and Dewey. With frayed nerves and tattered wallets the faithful stream through the turnstiles of the Magic Kingdom, intent on giving every child his or her birthright: The opportunity to gawk at a six foot duck in a blue jacket.”
“Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.”
“What we’ve done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.”
“Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.”
“Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.”
– Caryl Rivers