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• What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, What Matters, Able

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• 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.

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  Expectations, Toes, Surprise

  Vivian Gornick (1987). “Fierce Attachments: A Memoir”, Touchstone

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

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  New York, Diversity, Identity

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• for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

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  Self, Political, Feminism

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

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• a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and excitement when the insight comes, and is endlessly attracted to working out the idea.

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  Science, Ideas, Work Out

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.30, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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

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  Past, Transformation, Being There

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

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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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• Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her life was endowed with a seriousness her years in the kitchen had denied her. She remained devoted to this seriousness for thirty years. She never tired of it, never grew bored or restless in its company, found new ways to keep alive the interest it deserved and had so undeniably earned.

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  Father, Tired, Years

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• Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of these can compensate for the loss of vitality only research provides.

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  Heart, Loss, Past

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.27, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, Thoughtful, Thinking

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