“To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of living both personally and historically. That is why science now draws to itself all kinds of people - charlatans, mediocrities, geniuses - everyone who wants to touch the flame, feel alive to the time.” PeopleWantFeelsKindTodayScienceAliveGeniusPromiseUniqueDrawsContemporaryAll KindsFlamesDimensionsMediocrityIncomparableCharlatansWorking Life Book:Women in Science: Then and Now Source: Women in Science: Then and Now
“When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that can match it. I feel safe, excited, at peace, erotic, centered. Nothing can touch me.” WorldFeelsWorkAliveLove YouCircumstancesSafeExcitedEroticTouch Me Author:Vivian Gornick
“What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write the right sentence, nothing feels as good.” IfsThinkingFeelsWritingSentencesReliefClarifying Author:Vivian Gornick
“I may cause someone to feel badly, not because I'm doing something to them, but because the way in which I see might cause pain. But I am not doing the hurting.” WayFeelsMayMightPainCausesHurt Author:Vivian Gornick
“I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually know as a model, I am submitting them to the agenda of a storyteller, and I feel free to do what I want.” KnowsWantFeelsWritingStoriesFictionModelsTreatsMemoirNarrativeAgendasStoryteller Author:Vivian Gornick
“It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.” FeelsHumansSeemsFictionConditionsProduceHuman Condition Author:Vivian Gornick
“Sex is the killer. Sexual love makes you feel more vulnerable than any other kind of love. That's one reason that people are so thorny and so vulnerable and so easily wounded when in love.” PeopleFeelsKindReasonSexVulnerableKillersWoundedKinds Of Love Author:Vivian Gornick
