jeanne’s Reviews > Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers > Status Update

"She sees moral dilemmas everywhere—and, of course, there are moral dilemmas everywhere, only most of us prefer not to see them as such and simply accept the little evasions, equivocations, and compromises that soften the fabric of social life, that grease the machinery of living and working, that make reality less of a constant struggle with ourselves and with others...Sischy, however, rejoices in the struggle."