When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“It’s like life: sometimes the littlest thing turns out to be the most important.” — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women,… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
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