Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share
That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable,… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share
A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have. — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found. — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
