Allegra Goodman Quotes

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.