“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 Playwright Copy Share Image
“i could not but be moved -- by the great and the humble alike -- to pity and admiration for those who… — Vivian Gornick Admiration Copy Share Image
Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important. — Vivian Gornick Culture Copy Share Image
I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the… — Vivian Gornick Activism 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
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
I may cause someone to feel badly, not because I'm doing something to them, but because the way in which I see… — Vivian Gornick Causes 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
a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and… — Vivian Gornick Excitement 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
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
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
Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is… — Vivian Gornick Books 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
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
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
“It has come to my attention lately,” he says, “that sales are up on suntan lotion and sunblock. Now who do you… — Vivian Gornick Racism Copy Share Image
Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her… — Vivian Gornick Alive 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
“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
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
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
To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of… — Vivian Gornick Alive Copy Share Image
I hated being "Mrs." from the first second each time. I didn't know why. All I knew was how uncomfortable it felt.… — Vivian Gornick Couple 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 Heart 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
for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation… — Vivian Gornick Beauty 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
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
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
Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a… — Vivian Gornick Choices Copy Share Image
Awareness of the self is more acutely at the heart of things than it has ever been before. On the foundation of… — Vivian Gornick Awareness Copy Share Image
“There are two categories of friendship: those in which people enliven one another and those in which people must be enlivened to… — Vivian Gornick Empty space 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
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
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
Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations… — Vivian Gornick Active Copy Share Image
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