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

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

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

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

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.

- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks