Anne Roiphe

We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves…

— Anne Roiphe

“Silence in the shell of a city, no baby crying, no car honking, no ambulance shrieking, no lovers moaning, no drunks throwing…

— Anne Roiphe

They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying…

— Anne Roiphe

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join…

— Anne Roiphe

We have to recognize that it is a very, very painful thing for people to be exposed to their social community, to…

— Anne Roiphe

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

— Anne Roiphe

Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path…

— Anne Roiphe

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but…

— Anne Roiphe

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be…

— Anne Roiphe

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

— Anne Roiphe

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

— Anne Roiphe

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

— Anne Roiphe

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

— Anne Roiphe

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

— Anne Roiphe

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

— Anne Roiphe

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

— Anne Roiphe

How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle,…

— Anne Roiphe

Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and…

— Anne Roiphe

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had…

— Anne Roiphe

I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women…

— Anne Roiphe

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

— Anne Roiphe

“You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at the…

— Anne Roiphe

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's…

— Anne Roiphe

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and…

— Anne Roiphe

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better…

— Anne Roiphe