Vivian Gornick Quotes

• Una vida seria, por definición, es una vida sobre la que se reflexiona, una vida de la que se intenta dar sentido y testimonio. En unas memorias, la verdad no se alcanza mediante la narración de hechos reales, sino cuando el lector llega a creer que el escritor se esfuerza por comprometerse con la experiencia vivida. Lo que le sucedió al escritor no es lo que importa; lo que importa es el gran sentido que el escritor es capaz de dar a lo sucedido.

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  Life, Truth, Believe

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• Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that

  Vivian Gornick

  Heart, Radical Feminism, Choices

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• Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say

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  Emotional, Plot, Stories

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• Tú eres el instrumento de tu propia iluminación.

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  Illumination, Instruments

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• The point of women's liberation is not to stand at the door of the male world, beating our fists, and crying, 'Let me in, damn you, let me in!' The point is to walk away from the world and concentrate on creating a new woman.

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  Doors, Damn You, Creating

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• Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all.

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  Diversión, Lectura, Escritura

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• The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money - and there is a shabby and pathetic powerlessness that comes with that need. The inability to risk new lives, new work, new styles of thought and experience, is more often than not tied to the bourgeois fear of reducing one's material standard of living. That is, indeed, to be owned by possessions, to be governed by a sense of property rather than by a sense of self.

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  Money, Self, Ideas

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• self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

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  Confidence, Self, Faces

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that.

  Vivian Gornick

  Believe, Unfaithful, Realizing

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• Lo que sientes cuando escribes es el alivio de pensar: si escribes la frase correcta, te aclaras. Si escribes la frase correcta, nada sienta tan bien.

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  Writing, Thinking, Relief

  "'We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was'". Interview with Hayden Bennett, believermagblog.wordpress.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.

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  Girl, Might, Slave

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". The Believer Interview, believermag.com. March 2014.

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• Everyone longs for expressiveness. That's why love carries so much weight. Because so many lives are without other means of expressiveness.

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  Mean, Weight, Carrie

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". Interview with Madeleine Schwartz, believermag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• We all grew up so utterly vulnerable, enthralled by romantic love as we knew it. First of all, it was pounded into you every which way that you've got to get married and you've got to have babies. That you're not a natural woman if you don't. So that led to a lot of sitting by the telephone and waiting for a call. And that led you into a culture in which you were always in a subordinate position without realizing it; hamstrung, not able to take action. That was the most important thing: you were always waiting to be desired.

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  Baby, Romantic Love, Waiting

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has been accomplished.

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  Should, Said, Accomplished

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• To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of living both personally and historically. That is why science now draws to itself all kinds of people - charlatans, mediocrities, geniuses - everyone who wants to touch the flame, feel alive to the time.

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  Science, Unique, Flames

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.16, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually know as a model, I am submitting them to the agenda of a storyteller, and I feel free to do what I want.

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  Escritura, Ficción, Cuentos

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.

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  Love, Girl, Miscarriage

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• Lo que la independencia ha llegado a significar para mí: El dolor de la soledad. El placer del autoconocimiento

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  Dolor, Significado, Yo

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• Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

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  Boredom, Anxiety, Papa

  Vivian Gornick (2005). “Fierce Attachments: A Memoir”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

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  Art, Science, Political

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.53, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and father and no man would ever conceive of those relationships as instruments of his prime function in life. Yet every woman is raised, still, to believe that the fulfillment of these relationships is her prime function in life and, what's more, her instinctive choice.

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  Husband, Father, Believe

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.

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  Giving Up, Pain, Fear

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• The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.

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  Desire, Fiction, Ends

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• Awareness of the self is more acutely at the heart of things than it has ever been before. On the foundation of self-awareness alone rest all our hopes for a new politics, a new society, a revitalized life. If we do not genuinely know ourselves, the void will now, at last, surely rise up to meet us.

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  Heart, Self, Foundation

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

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  Doctors, Nurse, Tasks

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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