Knowing Quote by Louise Bernikow

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

— Louise Bernikow

Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

— Louise Bernikow

Humor tells you where the trouble is.

— Louise Bernikow

Everytime I say "sure" when I mean "no," everytime I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement…

— Louise Bernikow

“Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.”

— Louise Bernikow

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of…

— Louise Bernikow

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

— Louise Bernikow

I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.

— Louise Bernikow

What we have in common is what keeps us apart.

— Louise Bernikow

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

— Louise Bernikow

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

— Louise Bernikow

Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.

— Louise Bernikow