Louise Bernikow Quotes

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

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

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

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

What we have in common is what keeps us apart.

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

we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

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.

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

Humor tells you where the trouble is.

Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.

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