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Thinking clearly is, I believe, the road to freedom. It was in the spirit of that feminist essential that I have tried to write.

— Vivian Gornick Essays in feminism (1978)

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Knowledge brings pain and anxiety, exhilaration and an undreamt-of courage.

If you don't leave home you suffocate, if you go too far you lose oxygen.

The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001)

The exchange will always deepen, even if the friendship does not.

The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir (2015)

inner freedom inevitably releases one into the larger world.

Between what we know and what we cannot hope to know about how we come to be as we are lies an emotional dumping ground into which exceptional writers pour all the art they are capable of making.

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader (2020)

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