Jenny Offill quotes We have 14 quotes for this author ✍️

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A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I c…

Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation brain clouds genius knowledge sleep

There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with…

Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation accounting cars haircuts receipts sex

Someone had given my daughter a doctor's kit. Carefully, she takes her own temperature, places the pressure cuff around her arm. Then she takes the cuff off and examines it. "Would…

Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation children doctor

My daughter breaks both her wrists jumping off of a swing. Her friend, who is five, told her to jump off of it. I promise nothing will happen, she said. But why did she promise tha…

Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation children humor kids

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mund…

Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation art feminism

The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grief bacon.

Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation grief

I hate often and easily. I hate, for example, people who sit with their legs splayed. People who claim to give 110 percent. People who call themselves "comfortable" when what they …

Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation hate

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation courtesy lost objects possess stoics

Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say. That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.

Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation babies motherhood

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.

Jenny Offill Dept. of Speculation aging eccentricity madness

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Unscramble JENNY 5-letter words that start with J 5-letter words that end in Y 5-letter words containing EN 5-letter words containing NY 5-letter words with J and E

Archaic object pronoun

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Hint 1 meaning

The objective case of thou. See Thou.

Hint 2 anagram

EHTE

Hint 3 another clue

BEING USED OR WORKED FOR THE FIRST TIME

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