“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
“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.” PeopleStatesStrongUnderstandingSidesSituationGroupsPositionChaosAtmosphereFrightenedStabilityFenceBoth SidesGood WillSubjugationBravado Author:Vivian Gornick
“How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.” PeopleNeedsMovingPoliticalMoralArmsMassRootsDifficultyCriticalPaceAppetiteComplaintsImperativesUnbearableDiscomfortPrevailingDominatingSnailInsurmountableCritical MassPersonal Needs Author:Vivian Gornick
“They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.” PeopleKnowsSellsDo You Know Author:Vivian Gornick
“Of course love is a force in life. People will go on falling in love forever. And more important, sexual infatuation will enrapture everyone. Otherwise, no babies!” PeopleImportantFallCoursesForceLove IsForeverBabyGoes OnFalling In LoveInfatuationForever Love 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
