Louise Bernikow quotes
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“Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."”
-- Louise BernikowSource : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins
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“Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.”
-- Louise BernikowSource : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins
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“What we have in common is what keeps us apart.”
-- Louise BernikowSource : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins
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“Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.”
-- Louise BernikowSource : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins
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“we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.”
-- Louise BernikowSource : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins
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“What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.”
-- Louise BernikowSource : Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins
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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.”
-- Louise BernikowSource : Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins
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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.”
-- Louise BernikowSource : Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins
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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.”
-- Louise BernikowSource : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins
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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.”
-- Louise BernikowSource : Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins
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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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“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 ***** inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter "T-E-A-M, Yea, Team.”
-- Louise Bernikow
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