Louise Bernikow Quotes

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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.

Louise Bernikow

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

Louise Bernikow

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival — but in code.

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

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

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

Louise Bernikow