Judith Perelman Rossner Quotes

• The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Past, Found

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• In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Art, Memories, Discovery

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• So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Change, People, Blind

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• That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  New York, Crazy, People

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• Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Reality, Fantasy, Currents

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• Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Failure, People, Failing

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• The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Government, Self, Ideas

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• A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Lying, Might, Wells

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• Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Love, Hate, Opposites

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• He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Women, Smart, Moving

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• My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Husband, Book, Writing

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• Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Book, Perfect, Mind

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• It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Body, Obsession, Very Sad

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• What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been born because they are still tied by an umbilical cord. Relationships between women - daughters, mothers, friends - are one of my strong interests.

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  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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• It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Courage, Time, Wake Up

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