May Sarton Quotes


I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.


Citations

Sarton, May. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. W. W. Norton & Company, 1965, p. 154.

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May Sarton
May Sarton
  • Born: May 3, 1912
  • Died: July 16, 1995
  • Nationality: Belgian, American
  • Profession: Novelist, Poet, Memoirist

May Sarton was the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), a Belgian-American poet, novelist and memoirist. Although her best work is strongly personalised with erotic female imagery, she resisted the label of ‘lesbian writer’, preferring to convey the universality of human love.