Louise Bernikow Quotes

#1. In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

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#2. What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

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#3. The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

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#4. I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.

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#5. The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

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#6. We perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.

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#7. Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.

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#8. Humor tells you where the trouble is.

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#9. What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

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#10. For many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

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#11. Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

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#12. Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.

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#13. Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

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#14. Everytime I say "sure" when I mean "no," everytime I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter "T-E-A-M, Yea, Team.

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#15. What we have in common is what keeps us apart.

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