Barbara Lazear Ascher Quotes

United States, Author
1946

Barbara Lazear Ascher Director of Delphinium Books, teacher and attorney, is author of four books of non-fiction, PLAYING AFTER DARK (essays) (Doubleday), THE HABIT OF LOVING (essays) (Random House), LANDSCAPE WITHOUT GRAVITY (Memoir) (Viking, Penguin), and most recently DANCING IN THE DARK, Romance, Yearning, and the Search for the Sublime (Harper Collins).

A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

Barbara Lazear Ascher
- Church
- Butterfly
- Net
From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

Barbara Lazear Ascher
- Blood
- Voyage
- Moving Away

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

Barbara Lazear Ascher
- Dance
- Sing
- Voyage
Raw humanity offends our sensibilities.

Barbara Lazear Ascher
- Humanity
- Sensibilities
Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.

Barbara Lazear Ascher
- Wind
- Grief
- Calls
Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death reminds us that we are part of the same river, the same flow from the same source, rushing towards the same destiny. Were you close? Yes, but we didn't know it then.

Barbara Lazear Ascher
- Heart
- Death
- Destiny
The hot, moist smell of babies fresh from naps.

Barbara Lazear Ascher
- Babies
- Fresh
- Naps
Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

Barbara Lazear Ascher
- Joy
- Self
- Discover