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 Copy Share Image
“Una mujer sabe si ama a un hombre", decía. "Si no está segura, es que no lo ama” — 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 Copy Share Image
Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her… — Vivian Gornick 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
Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Everyone longs for expressiveness. That's why love carries so much weight. Because so many lives are without other means of expressiveness. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“My friendship with Leonard began with me invoking the laws of love: the ones that involved the expectancy. "We are one," I… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Sex is the killer. Sexual love makes you feel more vulnerable than any other kind of love. That's one reason that people… — Vivian Gornick 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
Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit to which… — Vivian Gornick 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 can match… — Vivian Gornick 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 against my… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At a time… — 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 alive the… — Vivian Gornick 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 to me.… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
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… — Vivian Gornick 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 husband and… — Vivian Gornick 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 had to… — Vivian Gornick 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 leaving the… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
