Quotes by : Vivian Gornick

There are two categories of friendship: those in which people enliven one another and those in which....

My friendship with Leonard began with me invoking the laws of love: the ones that involved the expectancy.....

I began to realize what everyone in the world knows and routinely forgets: that to be loved sexually....

She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying....

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

Nettie, it quickly developed, had no gift for mothering. Many women have no gift for it. They mimic the....

In Edmund Gosse, Agnes Smedley, Geoffrey Wolff, we have a set of memoirists whose work records a steadily....

As I saw myself moving ever farther toward the social margin, nothing healed me of a sore and angry heart....