Hortense Calisher
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Hortense Calisher (December 20, 1911 – January 13, 2009) was an American novelist.
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Quotes[edit]
- A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
- Queenie, 1971.
Quotes about Hortense Calisher[edit]
- We also organized Vietnamese Life. Vietnamese Life was like a teach-in through artists and writers. Everybody did something that would teach about Vietnamese life. Wally Zuckerman, who used to make harpsichords in the Village, did a Vietnamese forest symphony. Writers like Hortense Calisher read Vietnamese stories. [Avant-garde playwright] Maria Irena Fornes did The Vietnamese Wedding, which later became a play.
- Grace Paley, Interview with War Resisters League (2000
