Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960. — Cathleen Schine Activists Copy Share Image
“No, it's like you get an idea in your head ... no, it's more like you get and idea in your heart.” — Cathleen Schine Fin-and-lady Copy Share Image
“Lines of gulls standing on glassy blue patches of wet sand.” — Cathleen Schine Gulls Copy Share Image
Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames. — Cathleen Schine Cliffs Copy Share Image
“The garden stretched out in a soft drift, colors jumbled any way, an unmade bed of red and yellow and pink. Then… — Cathleen Schine Gardening Copy Share Image
For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work. — Cathleen Schine Get Copy Share Image
Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's… — Cathleen Schine Age Copy Share Image
One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and… — Cathleen Schine Breathless Copy Share Image
I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is… — Cathleen Schine Blessing Copy Share Image
In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But… — Cathleen Schine After Copy Share Image
All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that… — Cathleen Schine Boxes Copy Share Image
Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and… — Cathleen Schine Alice Copy Share Image
Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the… — Cathleen Schine Above Copy Share Image
“It was not that the woman boasted. Quite the opposite. She was modest to a fault, the fault being she insinuated her… — Cathleen Schine Communication Copy Share Image
The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were… — Cathleen Schine Bees Copy Share Image
... there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and sent her… — Cathleen Schine Boys Copy Share Image
There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that… — Cathleen Schine Ambitious Copy Share Image
Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex… — Cathleen Schine America Copy Share Image
“Most of her feelings she deemed insubstantial and she sent them packing with barely a nod of recognition. But her feelings for… — Cathleen Schine Daughter Copy Share Image
“Betty ran to the door in time to see a handsome young man dashing through the rain toward the house beside her… — Cathleen Schine Time Copy Share Image
“Dear Goat, How does one fall in love? Do you trip? Do you stumble, lose your balance and drop to the sidewalk,… — Cathleen Schine Fall in love Copy Share Image
'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss. — Cathleen Schine Blue Copy Share Image
A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think. — Cathleen Schine I think Copy Share Image
Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye. — Cathleen Schine Eagle eye Copy Share Image
“But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.” — Cathleen Schine Books Copy Share Image
If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for… — Cathleen Schine After Copy Share Image
I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't… — Cathleen Schine Dates Copy Share Image
“Dress you? I'd rather undress you. We don't belong together. But you belong to me. I want you not as you might… — Cathleen Schine Belong Copy Share Image
One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified. — Cathleen Schine Family Copy Share Image
“If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness… — Cathleen Schine Good thing Copy Share Image
