Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work. — Vivian Gornick Books 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
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
You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person. — Vivian Gornick Human beings 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 Copy Share Image
“My friendship with Leonard began with me invoking the laws of love: the ones that involved the expectancy. "We are one," I… — Vivian Gornick Friendship 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
Sex is the killer. Sexual love makes you feel more vulnerable than any other kind of love. That's one reason that people… — Vivian Gornick Feels 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
What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge — Vivian Gornick Freedom 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
... the whole sickening trickery in life -- the idea that one cannot fight for one's humanity without, ironically, losing it ...… — Vivian Gornick Enemy Copy Share Image
We all grew up so utterly vulnerable, enthralled by romantic love as we knew it. First of all, it was pounded into… — Vivian Gornick Able Copy Share Image
That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know… — Vivian Gornick Accomplished 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
in New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal. — Vivian Gornick Diversity Copy Share Image
What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make… — Vivian Gornick Able 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
The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of… — Vivian Gornick Antagonist 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
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed… — Vivian Gornick Assuming 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
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
“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
“She seemed never to be troubled by the notion that there might be two sides to a story, or more than one… — Vivian Gornick Two sides Copy Share Image
