Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her… — Vivian Gornick Anxiety Copy Share Image
Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest,… — Vivian Gornick Adorable Copy Share Image
“No, what mattered here was that Alice had spent a lifetime struggling to become a conscious human being whose primary delight was… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“I nearly weep. All I had ever wanted was that my mother be glad to be alive in my presence. I am… — Vivian Gornick Glad to be alive Copy Share Image
self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions. — Vivian Gornick Ability Copy Share Image
Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a… — Vivian Gornick Dies Copy Share Image
The difference between me in my work and the me who is here in front of you is that on the page… — Vivian Gornick Consistency Copy Share Image
For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience. — Vivian Gornick Being there Copy Share Image
Everyone longs for expressiveness. That's why love carries so much weight. Because so many lives are without other means of expressiveness. — Vivian Gornick Carrie Copy Share Image
They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know. — Vivian Gornick Do you know Copy Share Image
A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state of subjugation are in no position to be even-handed ...… — Vivian Gornick Atmosphere Copy Share Image
Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the… — Vivian Gornick Books Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick Bourgeois Copy Share Image
When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is… — Vivian Gornick Adequate Copy Share Image
“As I saw myself moving ever farther toward the social margin, nothing healed me of a sore and angry heart like a… — Vivian Gornick City Copy Share Image
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness… — Vivian Gornick Able Copy Share Image
How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal… — Vivian Gornick Appetite Copy Share Image
“...the men are undone by the need to master, and the women by the power of self-doubt.” — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it… — Vivian Gornick Books Copy Share Image
What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a… — Vivian Gornick Clarity Copy Share Image
Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us… — Vivian Gornick Art Copy Share Image
Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are… — Vivian Gornick Fun Copy Share Image
I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of… — Vivian Gornick Art Copy Share Image
It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply. — Vivian Gornick Conditions Copy Share Image
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