When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined to tell the truth, represents, at best, a guess. There have been times in my life… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“Who can resist the thought that love is the ideological bone thrown to women to distract their attention from the powerlessness of their lives?” — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“Some kinds of literature demand to be treated respectfully. The obligation is on the reader to live up to them and not so much… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“Most people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until you write… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live. — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
