Mary Schmich

• "Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.“
• "Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.“
• "I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.“
• "Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.“
• "A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.“
• "For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.“
• "Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.“
• "The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.“
• "You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.“
• "You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.“
• "Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.“
• "Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.“
• "Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.“

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