Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?
The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one. - Francine Du Plessix Gray
The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.
- Francine Du Plessix Gray
I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward an… - Francine Du Plessix Gray
I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward an…
Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it. - Francine Du Plessix Gray
Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.
I was just reviewed by Robert Gottlieb, who was my editor at 'The New Yorker,' and he sort of wondered at the fact that I still need to exorcise my p… - Francine Du Plessix Gray
I was just reviewed by Robert Gottlieb, who was my editor at 'The New Yorker,' and he sort of wondered at the fact that I still need to exorcise my p…
One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truth… - Francine Du Plessix Gray
One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truth…
The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosit… - Francine Du Plessix Gray
The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosit…
I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny. - Francine Du Plessix Gray
I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.
Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power,… - Francine Du Plessix Gray
Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power,…
one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward. - Francine Du Plessix Gray
one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.
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