Kathleen Norris - Hands Full of Living, 1931

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
Changing husbands is only changing troubles.
Kathleen Norris - O Magazine, January 2004
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
Kathleen Norris - O Magazine, July 2003
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
Kathleen Norris
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
Kathleen Norris
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Kathleen Norris
Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

- Kathleen Norris - Hands Full of Living, 1931