“I began to realize what everyone in the world knows and routinely forgets: that to be loved sexually is to be loved not for one's actual self but for one's ability to arouse desire in the other...Only the thoughts in one's mind or intuitions of the spirit can attract permanently...” LoveMindSpiritDesireSexAttraction Book:The Odd Woman and the City Source: The Odd Woman and the City
“Once again, I stared at him: only this stare was different from those other stares. A man was pressing me to do something I did not want to do, and pressing me in a manner he would never have applied to another man: by telling me that I didn't know what I wanted [...] It was as though an invisible membrane had fallen between me and my lover, one fine enough to be penetrated by desire but opaque enough to obscure human fellowship. The person on the other side of the membrane seemed as unreal to me as I felt myself to be to him [...] the memory of that fine, invisible separation haunted me; and more often than I like to remember, I saw it glistening as I gazed into the face of a man who loved me but was not persuaded that I needed what he needed to feel like a human being.” LoveSexRelationshipsPowerGender Politics Book:The Odd Woman and the City Source: The Odd Woman and the City
“Durante toda mi vida había sospechado que no era lo bastante interesante, ni lo bastante especial ni poseía el talento suficiente para mantener la atención de los que buscaban mi amistad o mi amor. Tenía la capacidad de atraer a la gente, eso es cierto, pero ¿también la de retenerla? Nunca estaba segura.” LoveFriendshipRelationship Book:Apegos feroces Source: Apegos feroces
“Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.” LoveShouldHumansGirlNextWishDoorsCompetitionMalesDelightFancyCharmingCompanionshipAvenuesChildlikeAdorableMadisonMiscarriageSpitefulMadison Avenue Author:Vivian Gornick
