Marilynne Robinson

Quotes

• “A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”
• “I can imagine Jesus befriending my grandfather, too, frying up some breakfast for him, talking things over with him, and in fact the old man did report several experiences of just that kind.”
• “Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it.”
• “I was trying to remember what birds did before there were telephone wires. It would have been much harder for them to roost in the sunlight, which is a thing they clearly enjoy doing.”
• “It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. So they get themselves drawn into situations that are harmful to them. I have seen this happen many, many times. I have always had trouble finding a way to caution against it. Since it is, in a word, Christlike.”
• “He could knock me down the stairs and I would have worked out the theology for forgiving him before I reached the bottom. But if he harmed you in the slightest way, I'm afraid theology would fail me.”

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Key facts

Born

Marilynne Summers , ( 1943-11-26 ) November 26, 1943 (age 82) , Sandpoint, Idaho , U.S.

Occupation

Novelist essayist

Education

Brown University ( BA ) University of Washington ( MA , PhD )

Notable awards

Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (1981) National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2004, 2014) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2005) Orange Prize for Fiction (2009) National Humanities Medal (2012) Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2016)

Spouse

Fred Robinson ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1967 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1989 ) ​

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