A biography for Jeannette Wallshasn’t been written yet.
“She had her addictions and one of them was reading.”
“I feel like 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.'”
“[Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. "Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. "Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.”
“My life is not just about the past.”
“I love Woody Harrelson. He's a fine actor.”
“You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.”
“With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive.”
“Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.”
“I didn't want to be the daughter of the crazy people.”
“I always wanted to be a serious journalist.”
“I'm none too big on giving advice,' Aunt Al said. 'Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.”
“I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.”
“I was like, 'I'll take out garbage or do whatever it takes just to work at 'New York Magazine.' My god! I'd do anything!”
“People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.”
“It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.”