Louise Bernikow famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Sister #Children #Cry
Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.
-- Louise Bernikow

#Children #Sometimes #Like A Sister
What we have in common is what keeps us apart.
-- Louise Bernikow

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

#Survival #Female #Facts
we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.
-- Louise Bernikow

#Silence #Facts #Perceive
What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.
-- Louise Bernikow

#People #Boards #Haunting
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

#Loneliness #Knowing #People
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

#Loneliness #Average #Waiting
In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.
-- Louise Bernikow

#Mother #Past #History
What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.
-- Louise Bernikow

#Choices #Records
Humor tells you where the trouble is.
-- Louise Bernikow

#Trouble
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

#Men #World #Arise
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 ***** inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter "T-E-A-M, Yea, Team.
-- Louise Bernikow

#Team #Mean #Men

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