--- title: "1 Dominating Quotes By Vivian Gornick" description: "1 Dominating quotes by Vivian Gornick. Plus more from Vivian Gornick and more Dominating sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/476/vivian-gornick-8241_appetite_how-dominating-is-appetite-how-envelopin_1705216.jpg" --- > [How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/how-dominating-is-appetite-how-enveloping-immediate-experience-even/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/476/vivian-gornick-8241_appetite_how-dominating-is-appetite-how-envelopin_1705216.jpg) ## Other authors on Dominating ## More by Vivian Gornick > [Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/research-is-the-live-heart-of-the-scientific-life-greatness-of/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [“Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/suddenly-literature-politics-and-analysis-came-together-and-i-began/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that can match…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/when-i-work-i-feel-more-alive-than-under-any-other-circumstances/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [“All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/all-i-had-to-do-was-get-old-enough-and-new-york-would-be-mine/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [“And I—the girl growing in their midst, being made in their image—I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/and-i-the-girl-growing-in-their-midst-being-made-in-their-image-i/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At a time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/before-i-knew-that-i-was-jewish-or-a-girl-i-knew-that-i-was-a-member/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/when-the-whole-world-is-writing-letters-it-s-easy-to-lap-into-the/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/the-live-warm-presence-of-my-mother-had-disappeared-in-its-place/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write the right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/what-you-feel-when-you-re-writing-is-the-relief-of-thinking-if-you/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/no-man-worth-his-salt-does-not-wish-to-be-a-husband-and-father-yet-no/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/psychoanalysis-showed-me-that-i-might-be-neurotic-because-i-was-a/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [“I had an affair with a downtown playwright. Two things about this man: He was an ex-alcoholic, and he was phobic about leaving the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/i-had-an-affair-with-a-downtown-playwright-two-things-about-this-man/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/the-desire-for-narration-keeps-on-reasserting-itself-so-that-since/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [The point of women's liberation is not to stand at the door of the male world, beating our fists, and crying, 'Let me in,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/the-point-of-women-s-liberation-is-not-to-stand-at-the-door-of-the/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) > [“Una mujer sabe si ama a un hombre", decía. "Si no está segura, es que no lo ama”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivian-gornick/una-mujer-sabe-si-ama-a-un-hombre-dec-a-si-no-est-segura-es-que-no-lo/) [Vivian Gornick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivian-gornick/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dominating/vivian-gornick/#itemlist", "name": "1 Dominating Quotes By Vivian Gornick", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. 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