21 Quotes by Phyllis Rose

Changes in consciousness begin with art and take shape through discussion of art. But the process takes a long time and involves a lot of people working in many small ways.

Every reading is a misreading.

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

God made them? You think God made them? Did God call White Flower Farm and order the bulbs? Did God put it on his credit card? Did God dig holes for the bulbs in the fall and mix bone meal in the dirt to feed them and cover them with mulch in the winter? If you think God did that, you're an idiot!

The secret of torture, like the secret of French cuisine, is that nothing is unthinkable.

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

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

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

Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.