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Katherine Heiny

  • The only thing worse than the first time they had sex was the second time they had sex.

    • Katherine Heiny,
    • "Cranberry Relish," Single, Carefree, Mellow ()
  • Josie's sons are teenagers now ... They have entered some alarming pupa stage where they grunt at her, and speak in deep voices, and peer out from under their hair like badgers from under a rock.

    • Katherine Heiny,
    • "Cranberry Relish," Single, Carefree, Mellow ()
  • ... she wishes, not for the first time, that life did not have to be a continuous series of eliminations, a constant narrowing of your options, a long series of choices in which you were always unhappy that you couldn't choose two things at the same time.

    • Katherine Heiny,
    • "The Dive Bar," Simple, Carefree, Mellow ()

Katherine Heiny, U.S. writer

(1968)

She also writes as Katherine Applegate.