Mary Schmich Quotes

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  • The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.

    Gay   Firsts   Mets  
    Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.245, Agate Digital
  • Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

    Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital
  • Do one thing every day that scares you... Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own... Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

    Thinking   Past   Fishing  
    "The greatest commencement speech ever" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2014.
  • Getting out of the house is the secret to staying alert through the droning hours leading up to the big meal, even if you don't go farther than 7-Eleven for another six-pack.

    House   Secret   Meals  
    "Thanksgiving Helper Hotline addresses pressing holiday issues" by Mary Schmich, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 21, 2012.
  • Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

    Choices   Half   Too Much  
    Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital
  • For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

    Pain   Medicine   Chicago  
  • Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

    Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital
  • Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.

    Magazines   Ugly   Feels  
  • Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

    "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young". Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997.
  • Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness.

    "Thanksgiving Helper Hotline addresses pressing holiday issues" by Mary Schmich, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 21, 2012.
  • Unusual commencement advice: Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.

    Chicago Tribune, 1 June 1997. This column became widely misattributed as a commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut to the MIT Class of 1997
  • Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

    Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital
  • You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

    Movie   Gambling   Two  
  • Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it

  • Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

    Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital
  • You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

    Figures  
  • The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

    Movie   Gambling   Actors  
  • The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.

    Games   Hunger   Anna  
  • Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

    Dream   New York   Coffee  
  • The Thanksgiving meal should not be treated as a grad school exam or an Olympic dive. Whatever you cook will be good enough - unless you make that Twinkie turkey stuffing we're suddenly hearing too much about.

    "Thanksgiving Helper Hotline addresses pressing holiday issues" by Mary Schmich, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 21, 2012.
  • 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.

  • The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to reframe obligation as opportunity. You don't have to spend Thanksgiving with your family. You get to.

    "Thanksgiving Helper Hotline addresses pressing holiday issues" by Mary Schmich, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 21, 2012.
  • Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

    Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.59, Agate Digital
  • Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

  • Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.

    Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.59, Agate Digital
  • Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

    Art   Views   Angle  
  • The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.

    Feel Better   Soul   Tvs  
  • Do one thing every day that scares you. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

    Race   Long   Scare  
    Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital
  • Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

    Book   Reading   Tickets  
    "Now Boarding At Any Newspaper, Magazine Or Book". articles.chicagotribune.com. October 28, 1998.
  • In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

    Mary Schmich (2012). “Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life”, p.8, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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