Ellen Sussman Quotes

Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.

Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.

Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.

Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

We don't need to talk. We need to love.

Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!

..I learned that there's a kind of love which must feel like coming home, ...

You know what he taught me? He taught me to feel more. He taught me to give myself over to feelings. And now that's all I have. I'm swamped by them. I can't breathe because I feel so damn much.

They're all true. They all could have happened.