Louise Bernikow Quotes & Sayings

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

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

What we have in common is what keeps us apart. — Louise Bernikow

Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child. — Louise Bernikow

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

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

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

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

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

Everytime I say "sure" when I mean "no," everytime I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter "T-E-A-M, Yea, Team. — Louise Bernikow

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. — Louise Bernikow

Humor tells you where the trouble is. — Louise Bernikow

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

We perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler. — Louise Bernikow

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