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Vivian Gornick quotes: Self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

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

Vivian Gornick quotes: Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.

Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.

Vivian Gornick quotes: Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us.

Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us.

Vivian Gornick quotes: Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other.

Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other.

Vivian Gornick quotes: Man is free only when he is doing what the deepest self likes, and knowing what the deepest self likes, ah! that takes some diving.

Man is free only when he is doing what the deepest self likes, and knowing what the deepest self likes, ah! that takes some diving.

Vivian Gornick quotes: What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

Vivian Gornick quotes: You are the instrument of your own illumination.

You are the instrument of your own illumination.

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

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

Vivian Gornick quotes: Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

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

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

Vivian Gornick quotes: 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.

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.

Vivian Gornick quotes: For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

Vivian Gornick quotes: We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.

Vivian Gornick quotes: Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

Vivian Gornick quotes: I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.

Vivian Gornick quotes: It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

Vivian Gornick quotes: 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.

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.

Vivian Gornick quotes: Penetrating the familiar is by no means a given. On the contrary, it is hard work.

Penetrating the familiar is by no means a given. On the contrary, it is hard work.

Vivian Gornick quotes: She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?

She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?

Vivian Gornick quotes: If you don't leave home you suffocate, if you go too far you lose oxygen.

If you don't leave home you suffocate, if you go too far you lose oxygen.

Vivian Gornick quotes: They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.

They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.

Vivian Gornick quotes: In New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal.

In New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal.

Vivian Gornick quotes: You're growing old together," she said to me. "You and what frightens you.

You're growing old together," she said to me. "You and what frightens you.

Vivian Gornick quotes: You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.

You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.