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Louise Bernikow
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“Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival — but in code.”
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“What we have in common is what keeps us apart.”
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“... we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.”
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“In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.”
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“Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.”
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“Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. 'Never leave me,' it says; 'do not abandon me.'”
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“Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.”
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“... for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.”
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“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.”
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“What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.”
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“Humor tells you where the trouble is.”
Louise Bernikow, U.S. writer
(1940)