Norma Major Quotes

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

I will be unhappy if RDA ducks me. I will be very unhappy.

I'm not gonna front and act like your boyfriend. I'm out here, you know what I'm saying?

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

I thought that I was going to be Mrs. Michael Jackson, but I was ready at 20 and 21 to get married, and he was not even close to getting married or having a girlfriend at that time, but yes, we dated. We dated for a while.

My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me.

Literally, I kissed a girl, and, like, a week later, she broke up with me. I was like, 'Oh my God, was it that bad?!'

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

I never had a real conversation with my father.

I wrote 'Monster' and thought that it would solve a lot of my problems, that I'd have money in the bank, but I felt no different. I was still searching for something.

When you leave Washington, you may miss Washington, but Washington will not miss you.

My marriages have been one of the greatest voids in my life.

My kids don't care about anything. I'm just Dad to them. They don't get excited about anything.

Men say, 'I've loved you since I was 7 years old,' and I say, 'Well, you never contacted me.' And very often women say, 'Do youuuuuu know what I have?' and I want to say, 'Yessssssss, I do.' Because inevitably the answer is, 'An original Shirley Temple doll.'

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they're probably less likely to achieve it.

The tricky thing is, from what I've heard, I'm a bit emotionally unavailable.

I burn with no causes.

I write about messy relationships, and they put pastel covers on them, but I can't complain.