I may cause someone to feel badly, not because I'm doing something to them, but because the way in which I see… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Of course love is a force in life. People will go on falling in love forever. And more important, sexual infatuation will… — Vivian Gornick Baby Copy Share Image
“i could not but be moved -- by the great and the humble alike -- to pity and admiration for those who… — Vivian Gornick Admiration Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important. — Vivian Gornick Culture Copy Share Image
I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the… — Vivian Gornick Activism Copy Share Image
“I had an affair with a downtown playwright. Two things about this man: He was an ex-alcoholic, and he was phobic about… — Vivian Gornick Playwright Copy Share Image
Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the… — Vivian Gornick Books Copy Share Image
Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is… — Vivian Gornick Books Copy Share Image
The point of women's liberation is not to stand at the door of the male world, beating our fists, and crying, 'Let… — Vivian Gornick Creating Copy Share Image
Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind.… — Vivian Gornick Cooking Copy Share Image
“And I—the girl growing in their midst, being made in their image—I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid… — Vivian Gornick Absorbed Copy Share Image
a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and… — Vivian Gornick Excitement Copy Share Image
... the whole sickening trickery in life -- the idea that one cannot fight for one's humanity without, ironically, losing it ...… — Vivian Gornick Enemy Copy Share Image
When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that… — Vivian Gornick Alive Copy Share Image
Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear;… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her… — Vivian Gornick Alive Copy Share Image
“It has come to my attention lately,” he says, “that sales are up on suntan lotion and sunblock. Now who do you… — Vivian Gornick Racism Copy Share Image
We all grew up so utterly vulnerable, enthralled by romantic love as we knew it. First of all, it was pounded into… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“I nearly weep. All I had ever wanted was that my mother be glad to be alive in my presence. I am… — Vivian Gornick Glad to be alive Copy Share Image
“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable… — Vivian Gornick Anxiety Copy Share Image
Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest,… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Agendas Copy Share Image
No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“There are two categories of friendship: those in which people enliven one another and those in which people must be enlivened to… — Vivian Gornick Empty space Copy Share Image
The difference between me in my work and the me who is here in front of you is that on the page… — Vivian Gornick Consistency Copy Share Image
Awareness of the self is more acutely at the heart of things than it has ever been before. On the foundation of… — Vivian Gornick Awareness Copy Share Image
Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep… — Vivian Gornick Alive Copy Share Image
Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a… — Vivian Gornick Choices Copy Share Image
Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but… — Vivian Gornick Bookkeepers Copy Share Image
They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see… — Vivian Gornick Human relations Copy Share Image
for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation… — Vivian Gornick Beauty Copy Share Image
I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of… — Vivian Gornick Art Copy Share Image
Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the workingclass. At a… — Vivian Gornick Things happen for a reason Copy Share Image
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