Quotes by Mary Schmich

About Mary Schmich:

Mary Theresa Schmich is an American journalist who has been a columnist for the Chicago Tribune from 1992, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. She wrote the comic strip Brenda Starr for the last 28 of its 60 years and she wrote the 1997 column, immediately famous, that is usually called "Wear Sunscreen".
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Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Mary Schmich

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire t...

Mary Schmich

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, b...

Mary Schmich

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Mary Schmich

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Mary Schmich

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.

Mary Schmich

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

Mary Schmich

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 o...

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You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

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Author Bio

  • NameMary Schmich
  • DescriptionAmerican columnist
  • BornNovember 29, 1953
  • ProfessionColumnist