Phyllis Rose Quotes

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

Every reading is a misreading.