Elizabeth Gilbert Biography

Elizabeth Gilbert

Biography

Type: Novelist, Memoirist

Born: July 18, 1969, Waterbury, Connecticut, Uni

Died:

Elizabeth is best known, however for her 2006 memoir “Eat pray love”, which chronicled her journey alone around the world, looking for solace after a difficult divorce. The book was an international bestseller, translated into over thirty languages, with over 10 million copies sold worldwide. In 2010, “Eat pray love” was made into a film starring Julia Roberts. The book became so popular that Time Magazine named Elizabeth as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2010, Elizabeth published a follow-up to “Eat pray love” called “Commited” —a memoir which explored her ambivalent feelings about the institution of marriage. The book immediately became a Number One New York Times Bestseller, and was also received with warm critical praise. As Newsweek wrote, “Commited” “retains plenty of Gilbert’s comic ruefulness and wide-eyed wonder”, and NPR called the book “a rich brew of newfound insight and wisdom.”

Elizabeth Gilbert lives in the small river town of Frenchtown, New Jersey, where she and her husband (more widely known as “That Brazilian Guy From Eat pray love”) run a large and delightful imports store called “Two buttons”.

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something..
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.. Elizabeth Gilbert
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

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