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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped. — Cathleen Schine Anyone 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
... 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
Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960. — Cathleen Schine Activists 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
