Vivian Gornick Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

  Vivian Gornick

  Art, Science, Political

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.53, The Feminist Press at CUNY

• A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state of subjugation are in no position to be even-handed ... and it takes much patience and understanding and good will on the part of the strong ones both in the subjugated group and in the group holding the power to provide an atmosphere of stability in which the frightened bravado on both sides of the fence can dissipate itself without increasing the chaos that is already intrinsic in the situation.

  Vivian Gornick

  Strong, People, Understanding

• I hated being "Mrs." from the first second each time. I didn't know why. All I knew was how uncomfortable it felt. I hated being one half of a couple, without understanding that it wasn't the husband or the man I hated, it was situation, the identity.

  Vivian Gornick

  Couple, Husband, Men

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". Interview with Madeleine Schwartz, believermag.com. March 24, 2014.

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