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Marilyn Yalom

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Marilyn Yalom


Born
in Chicago, The United States
March 10, 1932

Died
November 20, 2019

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Genre
Women & Gender Studies, History, Nonfiction


Marilyn Yalom grew up in Washington D.C. and was educated at Wellesley College, the Sorbonne, Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She has been a professor of French and comparative literature, director of an institute for research on women, a popular speaker on the lecture circuit, and the author of numerous books and articles on literature and women's history. ...more

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Average rating: 4.16 · 11,855 ratings · 1,618 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors
A History of the Wife
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How the French Invented Lov...
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A History of the Breast
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Birth of the Chess Queen: A...
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The American Resting Place:...
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The Social Sex: A History o...
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The Amorous Heart: An Uncon...
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Innocent Witnesses: Childho...
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Blood Sisters: The French R...
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Compelled to Witness: Women...
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“Living in an age of casual sex, serial commitments, and frequent divorce, we are all in danger of becoming as jaded as anceien regime aristocrats. Does the notion of undying love still have any meaning for us today?”
― Marilyn Yalom, How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance
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“At some level of consciousness, all lovers know this. If you cease to care for the person you love, you will give up a vital piece of your identity. You will become someone else. You will look back on your past love with tenderness or anger or some other combination of feelings, but you will not be able to recapture the same emotions you once felt.”
― Marilyn Yalom, How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance
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“born to avenge my sex and dominate yours”
― Marilyn Yalom
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