There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

- Phyllis Rose

More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations:…

- Phyllis Rose

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

- Phyllis Rose

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

- Phyllis Rose

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

- Phyllis Rose

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

- Phyllis Rose

When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determ…

- Phyllis Rose

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

- Phyllis Rose

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

- Phyllis Rose