Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.

— Gina Barreca

Gina Barreca Quotes

Not only do women hold up half the sky; we do it while carrying a 500-pound purse.

— Gina Barreca

From age sixteen to age twenty, a woman’s body is a temple. From twenty-one to forty-five, it’s an amusement park. From forty-five on, it’s a terrarium.

— Gina Barreca

There are now skin products supposedly created with 24-karat gold extract. I guess if financial times got really tough, you could always pawn your own head.

— Gina Barreca

It’s only when you’re at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.

— Gina Barreca

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel.

— Gina Barreca

When you enter your next relationship, you become the person you split up with.

— Gina Barreca

I’ve been married for a long time and there are days when I still wonder, ‘Excuse me, but who is this man?

— Gina Barreca

Fate gives us relatives for one reason: so that we have to learn how to deal with people we’d otherwise never know.

— Gina Barreca

My therapist has helped me learn to understand that if you don’t unpack your own emotional baggage it’s no longer baggage – it’s deadweight.

— Gina Barreca

Ever notice there are no clocks in stores? It’s like casinos; they don’t want you to know how much time you’ve spent dropping your quarters.

— Gina Barreca

This year’s vintage is best enjoyed this year. Let’s begin.

— Gina Barreca

If you ask a server for a seriously old wine in my neighborhood, they’ll look at you funny and then bring you a half-finished glass from somebody else’s table.

— Gina Barreca

Like most women, I’ve spent far too much time shuffling around this mortal coil looking for non-horror-show toilets. Few of my male counterparts partake of this quest. Instead, with the cheerful insouciance of Labrador puppies, they regard the earth as their urinal.

— Gina Barreca

Maybe it’s because I was the youngest or maybe it’s because I was girl, but I’ve spent much of my life expecting to be chastised for asking stupid questions.

— Gina Barreca

Here’s the nice thing about being over 60: You know enough to know you don’t know everything, however much you’ve learned.

— Gina Barreca

Increasingly political, assertive, articulate, and outspoken as we age, many of us become, paradoxically, the girls we were once: wild, hearty, courageous, and playful.

— Gina Barreca

Since little-girlhood, we’re trained to find the Big Bad Wolf seductive.

— Gina Barreca

But if you believe that your best years are behind you, you’ve guaranteed they are; I’m going to dance into that good night, with the oldies turned up loud.

— Gina Barreca

While many things have changed, some things haven’t changed enough.

— Gina Barreca

A stark sense of isolation encloses anyone who looks outward for validation.

— Gina Barreca
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