Susan Orlean Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

  Susan Orlean

  Home, Phones, Cells

  "Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

• I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

  Susan Orlean

  Mother, Party, Home

  "Bulge" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2010.

• I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.

  Susan Orlean

  Hate, Home, Phones

  "Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

• I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.

  Susan Orlean

  Country, Husband, Home

  "Quirk" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2010.

• Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.

  Susan Orlean

  Home, Phones, Pests

  "Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

• The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.

  Susan Orlean

  Home, Perfect, Quests

  "iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

• When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

  Susan Orlean

  Lying, Home, Son

  "Facts of Life" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 8, 2010.

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