“Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of her children on the same moral and emotional level as the leaving of her husband and we cannot, in our hearts, asssent to that. It is not only the leaving but the way the play does not have time for suffering, changes of heart. Ibsen has been too much a man in the end. He has taken the man's practice, if not his stated belief, that where self-realization is concerned children shall not be an impediment.” WritingMotherhoodIbsenFeminsimA Doll S House Book:Seduction and Betrayal Source: Seduction and Betrayal
“There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.” WritingVirginityWuthering Heights Book:Seduction and Betrayal Source: Seduction and Betrayal
“The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are a representation of the life she could not face; these gothic subterfuges represent the mind at a breaking point, frantic to find any way out. If the flaws are only to be attributed to the practicce of popular fiction of the time, we cannot then explain the large amount of genuine feeling that goes into them. They stand for the hidden wishes of an intolerable life.” WritingBrontes Book:Seduction and Betrayal Source: Seduction and Betrayal
“The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those wives and husbands who had read sex manuals and radically wanted more of life even if it had to be, like pizza, brought in from around the corner--all of this was accomplished by Bloomsbury in the lightest, most spontaneous and good-natured manner.” WritingBloomsburyVirginia Woof Book:Seduction and Betrayal Source: Seduction and Betrayal
“It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft.” ShouldWritingFirstsMayStudentsThirdsDisappointed Author:Elizabeth Hardwick
“Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.” IfsWritingHomeCreationDoctorsSentencesLawyerReputationEstablishment Book:Sight-readings: American Fictions Source: Sight-readings: American Fictions
“I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.” WritingBeliefPureResearchInevitableRoutineAwkwardnessSociologicalBad Writing Author:Elizabeth Hardwick
