Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

(1929) Literary Scholar

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Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks is a literary scholar.

Quick Facts About Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

Born: January 1, 1929
Profession: Literary Scholar

About Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks is an American literary scholar. She is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia and former president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Modern Language Association.

Quotes by Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined…

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Consistently

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Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his…

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Accomplishment

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Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.

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Culture

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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

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Biographies

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Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

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Men

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Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour…

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Bedroom

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