Kate Walters

“Even with a cursory look, Eileen Fisher’s clothes look like a cross between a hospital gown and a toga.”
― Annabelle Gurwitch, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50

“We are here, as Diane Ackerman writes, to live not just the length of our lives, but the width of them as well. We”
― Ingrid Fetell Lee, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

“Lindsay was a tough kid, donning a mask of self-reliance and stubbornness that served her well through childhood, and then eventually that mask fused to her real face. The question was how well that mask was still working for her now: hypervigilant, uncomfortable with failure, terrified to present herself to others as anything less than perfect.”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

“This is important because research shows that we’re attracted to environments with a moderately high degree of complexity, but only if the complexity is well structured. The greater the complexity in an environment, the greater the need for an underlying harmony to bring a sense of order and ease to a space.”
― Ingrid Fetell Lee, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness