Louise Bernikow Quotes
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I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.
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for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.
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In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.
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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 is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter "T-E-A-M, Yea, Team.
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What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.
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Humor tells you where the trouble is.
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The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.
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Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.
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What we have in common is what keeps us apart.
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Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.
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What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.
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Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."
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we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.
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The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.
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