“'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different ...” — Susanna Moore Quote

“'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.”

“When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai.”

“While I was writing 'The Big Girls,' I had to take a big breath each morning and calm myself sufficiently to once again enter that world. But friends tell me that it is the only thing that really interests me. They say that I like to be upset.”

“The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.”

“Sometimes, it feels artificial to try to come up with a solution to something that none of us know how to solve.”

“Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.”