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About Jeannette Walls
American author and journalist
Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist, best known for her memoir The Glass Castle and for her work as a former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com. She has 95 quotes on the site. The Glass Castle, published in 2005, recounts the unsettled, nomadic childhood she wrote about in memoir form. Walls has also been recognized with the Alex Award and the Christopher Award in 2006, and her writing is closely associated with personal narrative and family memory.
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- “Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.”Jeannette Walls
- “When I was first getting out of college, Mom said, 'You ought to become a squatter.' I'm like, 'Forget it!'”Jeannette Walls
- “I feel like I failed," I said. "Don't beat yourself up," Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you pl…”Jeannette Walls
- “What's wrong with social climbing? What's wrong with trying to improve your lot in life? And if you do, what…”Jeannette Walls
Explore Purpose
- “Passion without purpose is like a shot without a target.”Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
- “The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.”Michel de Montaigne
- “With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill with answers…”Nikos Kazantzakis
God: more sayings
- “I dont believe knowing can save us. What isconstant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood a…”Cormac McCarthy
- “Oh my God. Party punch. He’d brought a woman with the social age of twelve to the Citadel. He deserved everyt…”Annabel Joseph
- “It was so lovely, Heidi stood with tears pouring down her cheeks, and thanked God for letting her come home t…”Johanna Spyri
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Books by Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle
2006
Half broke horses
2009
The silver star
2013
Dish
2000