Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself --… — Vivian Gornick Accomplishment Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit… — Vivian Gornick Books Copy Share Image
When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that… — Vivian Gornick Alive Copy Share Image
“All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.” — Vivian Gornick Old enough Copy Share Image
“And I—the girl growing in their midst, being made in their image—I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid… — Vivian Gornick Thirty years Copy Share Image
Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At… — Vivian Gornick Brother Copy Share Image
When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep… — Vivian Gornick Alive Copy Share Image
“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable… — Vivian Gornick Anxiety Copy Share Image
What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write… — Vivian Gornick Clarifying Copy Share Image
No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a… — Vivian Gornick Believe Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone… — Vivian Gornick Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I had an affair with a downtown playwright. Two things about this man: He was an ex-alcoholic, and he was phobic about… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought… — Vivian Gornick Desire Copy Share Image
The point of women's liberation is not to stand at the door of the male world, beating our fists, and crying, 'Let… — Vivian Gornick Creating Copy Share Image
“Una mujer sabe si ama a un hombre", decía. "Si no está segura, es que no lo ama” — Vivian Gornick Amor Copy Share Image
Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear;… — Vivian Gornick Amount Copy Share Image
“It has come to my attention lately,” he says, “that sales are up on suntan lotion and sunblock. Now who do you… — Vivian Gornick White people Copy Share Image
We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us… — Vivian Gornick Change Copy Share Image
The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's… — Vivian Gornick Engagement Copy Share Image
Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the workingclass. At a… — Vivian Gornick Things happen for a reason Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Agendas Copy Share Image
Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind.… — Vivian Gornick Cooking Copy Share Image
Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but… — Vivian Gornick Bookkeepers Copy Share Image
Of course love is a force in life. People will go on falling in love forever. And more important, sexual infatuation will… — Vivian Gornick Baby Copy Share Image
They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see… — Vivian Gornick Human relations Copy Share Image
