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Joyce Rebeta-Burditt
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“Alcoholism isn't a spectator sport. Eventually the whole family gets to play. ”
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“Do you know what it's like to feel wrong twenty-four hours a day? Do you know what it's like to be disapproved of, not only for what you do and say and think but for what you are?”
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“Evidently Christmas was an unmitigated joy only for the people who inhabited department-store brochures and seasonal television specials. For everyone else the day seemed to be a trip across a mine field seeded with resurrected family feuds, exacerbated loneliness, emotional excess, and the inevitable disappointments that arise when expectations fall far short of reality.”
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“I'm devoting my life to being a psychiatric patient. It's a vocation, like being a nun, only a lot more expensive.”
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“I can sometimes resist temptation, but never mischief.”
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“An agenda, no matter how bizarre, is the difference between eccentric and mad as a hatter.”
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“I would rather eat nails and sleep on an off-ramp than live with my mother again.”
Joyce Rebeta-Burditt, U.S. novelist, TV executive, screenwriter
(1938)
Sometimes publishes as Joyce Burditt.