Erika Dreifus

Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

What Gornick turned out to be—a woman who makes her living by writing, who is childless and happily divorced, who lives alone without suffering stigma for it—is a phenomenon of the twentieth century, a creature who didn’t exist in the Bronx of her youth, where women were wives, widows, or wives- and widows-to-be.

Source: Alexandra Schwartz’s profile of Vivian Gornick in the latest New Yorker.