Word: hite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is an irony in Hite's ideology. Women are finding that they cannot have it all: they are staggering under the burden of trying to be all things to all people -- the nurturing parent, the successful careerist, the sexual athlete. Now they are asking men to play all these roles too. Can this work, or will it merely leave everybody frazzled? And even if it can work, and both men and women can succeed in playing all these roles, what then will they need each other for? What will have happened to the partnership, to love? Maybe Katharine Hepburn...
...salon is modeled after a room in a 15th century Italian palace. Carved cherubs adorn the ceiling. The walls are decorated with brocade and wood panels. A black Steinway grand piano sits next to tall windows overlooking Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Within this setting, Author Shere Hite is a slight, willowy figure, resembling nothing so much as a fey, reclusive maiden on leave from a Renaissance fair. It is an exquisitely crafted image, graceful, faintly otherworldly, eccentric. The $1.5 million, four-room duplex apartment is a monument to the success of her two earlier Hite Reports...
...center of Hite's life these days is a West German concert pianist more than 20 years her junior, Friedrich Horicke, 24, whom she married 2 1/2 years ago. Unlike her disgruntled respondents in Women and Love, Hite is euphoric about her husband. "With some people you feel like the whole world is open and everything is possible," she says. "That's how I feel with Fred...
...Hite says in her marriage there is none of the emotional violence she describes in Women and Love. Because Horicke was raised with sisters who did the household chores, Hite did set down firm domestic rules. "He has learned to live with them," she says, laughing. "He even changes light bulbs without being asked." Her husband is supportive of her work. On the rare occasions , when he insults her or sulks, Hite says, she reminds him, "Fred, you're doing that thing...
...soft-spoken sexologist is more reluctant to discuss the details of her splintered childhood. Hite was born Shirley Diana Gregory in 1942 in St. Joseph, Mo. Her father Paul Gregory, a serviceman and flight controller, and her mother divorced shortly after the end of World War II. Her mother later married Raymond Hite, a truck driver, who legally adopted her. After 2 1/2 years that marriage dissolved. Throughout the turmoil, Shere (short for Shirley) lived on and off with her grandparents, who, after a 30-year marriage, also divorced. Her grandfather, Alexander Hurt, acted as a surrogate father, although Shere...