Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.
One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have b… - Roger Rosenblatt
One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have b…
- Roger Rosenblatt
A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge… - Roger Rosenblatt
A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge…
Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light. - Roger Rosenblatt
Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster. - Roger Rosenblatt
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.
The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantas… - Roger Rosenblatt
The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantas…
My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the c… - Roger Rosenblatt
My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the c…
Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved - Roger Rosenblatt
Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a s… - Roger Rosenblatt
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a s…
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something. - Roger Rosenblatt
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
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