Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.
The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in … - Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in …
- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power o… - Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power o…
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. - Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant. - Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.
Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings… - Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings…
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives. - Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. - Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society. - Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.
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